The new iPhone update from Apple allows users to keep and carry medical records with them from multiple providers. The issue of security of our health records is moving away from within the doctor’s office, to the palm our hand. Can this be done safely?
The UGA’s program Archway Partnership tackles big problems in small communities across Georgia. The small town of Hawkinsville, GA know this more than any other community. Their next problem is the biggest one yet, opioid abuse.
In a survey conducted by AMGA Consulting found an average of $31,957 in operating losses accrued by integrated health systems during 2016-2017
In a report released by the Government Accountability Office, the National Repository of Medicaid created an estimated $36.7 billion worth of payment errors in 2017.
In order to avoid a government shutdown, both houses of congress reached a budget deal; however, it won’t be enough to help states that are running out of money for their Children’s Health Insurance Program.
Georgia House members have approved a set of bold proposals to strengthen rural health care in the state. According to Georgia Health News, “The recommendations from the House Rural Development Council include expanding insurance coverage through a Medicaid “waiver’’ project and…
Georgia’s ACA exchange enrollment for 2018 may fall short of the current year totals. The final number of Georgians who actually started exchange coverage in 2017 was 404,000. This year 246,270 have signed up for coverage in the state’s exchange.…
St. Louis-based Ascension Health are in talks to merge with Renton, Washington’s Providence St. Joseph Health, which would create the largest hospital chain in America. The companies are the top two Catholic health systems in the nation. If the two…
CVS Health announced Sunday that it agreed to buy Aetna for a whopping $69 billion. The deal would be considered one of the largest transactions of the year, combining the drugstore giant and one of the biggest health insurers in…
January 1, 2017-December 31, 2017 | Performance period for 2019 payment (can report data for any 90-day period this year) March 31, 2017 | First APM snapshot; (also June 30 and Aug. 31) April 1–June 30, 2017 | Registration period for submitting data…