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The HITECH Act requires entities covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to report data breaches, which affect 500 or more persons, to the United States Department of Health and Human Services (U.S. HHS), to the news media, and to the people affected by the data breaches. [23]
U.S. employers anticipate their total health benefit cost per employee will rise 5.8% in 2025, even after factoring in cost-reduction measures, according to a new report from Mercer, an HR ...
Are health care costs rising? Health care spending has spiraled upward for decades. Total national health spending has more than doubled since 2000, after inflation, from $2.2 trillion to $4.9 ...
There are multiple reasons why health care costs are rising swiftly now, said Debbie Ashford, the North America chief actuary for Health Solutions at Aon, which pegs the increase at 8.5% for 2024 ...
Widely adopted by the healthcare sector, the Triple Aim was developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement to 1) improve patient experience of care, 2) improve the health of populations, and 3) reduce per capita costs of healthcare. The Federal Health IT Strategic Plan from 2011-2015 had set these five goals
The HIMSS Revenue Cycle Improvement Task Force was formed to prepare for the IT changes in the U.S. (e.g. the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (HITECH), Affordable Care Act, 5010 (electronic exchanges), ICD-10). An important change to the revenue cycle is the international classification of diseases (ICD) codes from 9 to 10.
The cost of health coverage through work jumped this year, in part because of inflation, according to a survey of U.S. employers. Premiums for both family and single plans climbed 7% after barely ...
Because of those challenges, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), enacted in 2010, includes requirements for businesses with 50 or more employees to provide health coverage, but exempts smaller employers.