Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is an approach for providing comprehensive primary care to facilitate partnerships between individual patients, their personal doctors, and when appropriate, the patients’ families. BCBSF implemented its PCMH program in October 2011. Pat Geraghty, BCBSF’s president, chariman and CEO, discusses the positive impact the program will have on BCBSF members throughout the state.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, Inc. (BCBSF) opened a new Florida Blue retail center in Tallahassee, located at 2116 Apalachee Parkway, east of Governor’s Square Mall.
You must have heard by now that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is considering pushing back the International Classification of Diseases Version 10 (ICD-10) compliance deadline for covered entities to an unspecified date.
If you are still operating in 4010 mode on April 1, 2012, of course you’ll want to minimize potential disruptions to your electronic claims transactions.
Payment to Medicare Advantage plans will, for the first time, be tied to a beneficiary’s experience and quality of care. Health Care Reform legislation began a phased-in reimbursement reduction for all Medicare Advantage plans.
On April 2, 2012, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, Inc. (BCBSF) will become Florida Blue.
Health care providers, billing services, clearinghouses and other electronic trading partners have been actively participating in our HIPAA 5010 Open Line Friday Teleconferences to achieve 5010 compliance.