OKEMOS, Mich., March 27, 2026 –... Health Management Associates, (HMA), a national leader in health and human services consulting, today announced the acquisition of HealthTech Solutions, a premier provider of Medicaid-focused technology, analytics, ...

HealthTech Solutions has been working closely with the Urban Institute under a contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) in order to study what would make the most effe...

...For the past two years, we have been working closely with the Urban Institute and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) in order to study what would make the most effective c...

There is a lot of information coming at us daily. We took a stab at organizing some of it here for state Medicaid, CHIP, and health IT programs.... ...We will continue to update this page as we continue to receive updates.... ... ...In the U.S. Depar...

HealthTech Solutions has earned the distinction of being a Project Management Institute (PMI)®... ...Registered Education Provider... (REP). ...We are proud to be one of five sites in Kentucky. ... ...REPs are organizations approved by PMI to offer c...

On January 15, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) released their “...2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan....” The plan describes the biggest challenges in federal...

While the federal health policy space is unlikely to see any major upheavals in an election year, there are still some key issues we will be watching in 2020.... ... ...Release of the final rules from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ...

The opioid health crisis may have already peaked. However, substance use disorder (SUD) related deaths are on the rise for other controlled and illicit substances. Opioid addiction and treatment have different clinical and technical protocols, so sol...

...HealthTech Solutions sent a large delegation to the 2019 Medicaid Enterprise Systems Conference (MESC) in Chicago. We fanned out for client meetings and sessions, but here were our key takeaways:... ...The pre-conference workshops was a very usef...

On June 24, 2019, the Trump Administration... ...issued an Executive Order... (EO) on increasing transparency in healthcare prices for patients and families. Pricing data is often hidden, as this is a private negotiation in provider contracts. For ex...

Today the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) shared a new Request for Information (RFI) as part of their efforts to reduce patient and provider reporting burden. The RFI has not yet been published in the... ...Federal Register..., but t...

On May 23, 2019, leaders of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Democrat Patty Murray (Washington) and Republican Lamar Alexander (Tennessee) announced the... ...Lower Health Care Costs Act... (LHCCA), a discussion dra...

For readers new to the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), please see... ...here... and ...here.... In this third installment, we discuss... ...TEFCA version 2,... how it differs from the previous effort, and what stakeholders ma...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights occasionally issues new Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) to clarify how the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) applies to other new policy or law....

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued several important updates today:... ... ...The ...interoperability proposed rules... comment period has been extended by 30 days and comments are ...now due on June 3, 2019. ... ...New HIP...

On March 26, 2019,  witnesses testified in front of the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee regarding the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s (ONC)...

Lately, we’ve heard lots from the political left on health reform. There is a myriad of so-called “Medicare-for-All” or “Medicare-for-More”, as well as Medicare and Medicaid buy-in proposals. Some states are even considering and advancing their own h...

In two Notices of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office for the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) have shown a commitment to two major issues: ...increased portability of patient data...

On February 11, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT both released closely related Notices of Proposed Rulemaking ...

It’s a new year and there are five key areas we will be watching:... ... ...Price transparency efforts.... The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) continue efforts to promote price transp...

HealthTech Solutions is excited to announce three new members to our... State Level Registry (SLR) solution package.... South Dakota and the District of Columbia now join four other states and one U.S. territory in using our SLR software: Alabama, Am...

This week, the Trump Administration created additional flexibility for states considering how to use... section 1332 waivers... to support more affordable insurance options in the individual market. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS...

Recently, we wrote a ...high-level overview of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA)... and the interoperability challenges it will address. In this post, we will explain more about the challenges in the current health data exch...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) will establish comparison criteria for choosing an Electronic Health Record (EHR) vendor. ONC selected the Urban Institute to lead this prog...

Last week, Congress reached bipartisan, bicameral consensus on an... opioids legislation and spending package.... The President is expected to sign it this week. The law will be known as the “Substance Use–Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Rec...