Healthcare at Home: The Rowan Report

When CMS announced last week that it had given in to the strong concerns of “some provider groups” and delayed the deadline for ICD-10 compliance one year to October 1, 2014, it did not mention the American Medical Association (AMA) but the inference was there for the taking. (Click here for the complete CMS statement.) […]

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that, as of July 1, 89 new Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) began serving 1.2 million Medicare beneficiaries in 40 states and the District of Columbia. ACOs are organizations formed by groups of doctors and other health care providers that have agreed to work together to coordinate […]