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Pharmacy group comes down on health plans

To provide for a smooth transition from coverage to care at the start of the 2015 plan year, the National Association of Chain Drug Stores urged the federal government to require that health plans provide nightly updates to patient eligibility files. This is just one of many actions the group wants health plans to take to help beneficiaries during the upcoming enrollment process. 

Reform law requires electronic enrollment for federal, state health programs

Details of the massive health insurance reform law continue to trickle out, and some even pertain to health IT. Health Data Management has discovered that one section of the Patient Protection and

Electronic claims submission could save $11B per year

Right now, 25 percent of physician claims are submitted on paper each year. That's a whopping 3 billion claims still being handled the old-fashioned way. The vast majority of those claims are being