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The 2020 ICD-10-CM code set becomes effective October 1, 2019. Changes contained in the FY 2020 Proposed Rule Tables revealed 273 new codes, 21 deleted

The AMA reported on a recent survey in which two-thirds of patients polled said they benefited from reading the clinician’s notes in their medical record.

On January 24, 2019 an executive order was issued on healthcare price and quality transparency. The goal of the executive order is to help consumers

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently settled a $1.2 million HIPAA case in which a New York managed care plan failed

Recently, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services discovered an error in the implementation of the 2019 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) payment adjustment –

A current lawsuit is winding its way through federal court that accuses Anthem and its Blue Cross entities of paying patients directly in an effort

US Chief Magistrate Judge Joseph Spero issued his decision Tuesday against United Behavioral Health, a unit of UnitedHealthcare, saying the insurer created internal policies that

A recent article from Modern Healthcare reports that about 1 in 7 Illinois patients who were admitted to an in-network hospital received at least one

In the March 2019 Network Bulletin, United Healthcare announced a policy revision under which consultation services will no longer be reimbursed. The CPT codes impacted