The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) created major incentive programs for clinicians and hospitals that adopt electronic health records and achieve certain Meaningful Use (MU) ...

As providers ready for meaningful use Stage 2 attestation and policymakers start designing Stage 3, CMS announced that the Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive programs have paid out just shy of $17 ...

In April 2016, Quorum Health spun out from one of the largest publicly traded hospital companies in the United States with 160 affiliated hospitals in 22 states, as an independent, publicly traded ...

Federal regulators have still not developed a plan for curbing billing fraud enabled by the cut-and-paste function in electronic health records, as was recommended in a 2013 watchdog agency report.

The rule is expected to reduce staff workload, with fewer manual processes, and better visibility into coverage requirements and authorization status.