Morning Headlines 4/17/18
CMS Paid Practitioners for Telehealth Services That Did Not Meet Medicare Requirements
An OIG analysis finds that CMS erroneously paid out $3.7 million for telemedicine claims that did not meet Medicare requirements.
Pentagon wants to spot illnesses by monitoring service members’ smartphones
DARPA awards a $5.1 million contract to KryptoWire to develop the Warfighter Analytics using Smartphones for Health program.
HealthInsight and Qualis Health Announce Formal Merger Agreement
Healthcare consulting firms HealthInsight and Qualis Health announce formal merger plans.
Nokia’s Health division is up for sale (again) and Nest is interested
Google-backed Nest expresses interest in purchasing Nokia’s consumer health division, which includes the Withings assets acquired for $190 million in 2016.
The insurers say it's the providers who are impeding electronic streamlining of prior auths?They must be smoking some really good…