Morning Headlines 2/12/18
HealthInsight and Qualis Health Announce Intent to Merge
Medicare and Medicaid-focused population health management companies HealthInsight and Qualis Health will merge later this spring.
AAFP Outlines Steps to Reduce Administrative Burden
American Academy of Family Physicians asks HHS and ONC to reduce the health IT burden of clinicians with a series of recommendations it plans to reiterate during a meeting with CMS later this month as part of the Patients over Paperwork Initiative.
MD settles with computer contractor over Medicaid failures
Computer Sciences Corp. pays an $81 million settlement to the state of Maryland for its failure to build a new computer system for the state’s Medicaid program per its 2012 contract.
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