By Tim Rowan. Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report CMS administrator Seema Verma announced this week that Kentucky is the first state to receive permission to make work a requirement to remain eligible for Medicaid benefits. Nearly a dozen other states have submitted similar proposals but Kentucky’s is the first to be approved. […]
By Tim Rowan. Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report Last month, CMS Administrator Seema Verma submitted to an interview with reporter Avik Roy from Forbes Online magazine. The wide-ranging interview captured Verma’s opinions of the Affordable Care Act and its individual mandate to purchase insurance, skyrocketing drug prices, and the nomination of her […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report Healthcare at home providers can use a secure, encrypted texting application to discuss patient conditions with each other, take photographs of wounds or medicine bottles, or attach documents for signature. Physicians cannot, however, send patient orders by text, even via an encrypted system. On […]
By Tim Rowan, Editor & Publisher of Home Care Technology Report On Tuesday of this week, the CMS announced that doctors and other eligible clinicians participating in the Quality Payment Program can begin submitting their 2017 performance data using a new system on the QPP website. The data submission system, CMS asserts, is an improvement […]
