ArborMetrix, a provider of real-time healthcare analytics, has announced that the Michigan Value Collaborative (MVC) chose its fully integrated, cloud-based clinical analytics platform to power meaningful analysis and decision support for ...
US-based UPMC Health Plan has inked an agreement with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to offer its health insurance coverage through Qualified Health Plans (QHP) on the Federal Health Insurance Marketplace. Under the ...
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Second Sight Medical Products has secured Medicare coverage for its Argus II retinal prosthesis system (Argus II) designed to treat the patients affected with blindness from the untreatable orphan disease retinitis pigmentosa in both the US ...
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Global technology and financial services company for clinical trials Clinverse has rolled out its new tool ClinSpend, to fulfill the reporting needs to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for Sunshine Act. Dubbed as Open ...
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services wants health tech developers in Silicon Valley to make greater use of its data to help make advances in the field and aid entrepreneurs in the region. The effort is part of a larger ongoing ...
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Texas-based Capson Physicians Insurance Company has received a license to underwrite medical malpractice insurance in the state of Mississippi, US. With the new license, the company's innovative, all-inclusive approach to medical ...
If you recently checked out of a hospital there's a good chance you'll be heading back soon, quite possibly through the emergency room door. Nearly 10 of every 100 hospital patients enter the emergency room within 30 days of their ...
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Wireless remote monitoring devices will be used by more than 1.8 million people worldwide in four years, representing a six-fold increase in adoption of telehealth technology, according to a new study by InMedica, part of research firm IHS. ...
The agency responsible for administering the federal program for electronic health records (EHRs) said it plans to address the complaints healthcare providers are making about the implementation process. Additionally, an important ...
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If you think leaving the hospital means you're home for good, think again. About twenty percent of heart attack and pneumonia patients, and a quarter of heart failure patients, find themselves back in the hospital within 30 days, according ...
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Medicare beneficiaries whose lives have been upended by Hurricane Sandy will be allowed to sign up for Medicare health and drug plans after the open enrollment deadline of Dec. 7, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has ...
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has granted a unique product reimbursement code (Q-code) for Affymax's Omontys (peginesatide) injection. Omontys is a once-monthly erythropoiesis-stimulating agent (ESA) for anemia ...
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