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EHRA critiques GOP's MU 'reboot' plan
Mike Miliard
May 21, 2013
One month after six Republican Senators published a white paper calling for a new approach to the federal meaningful use incentive program, the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association, has drafted a point-by-point response.
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Better care not always better business
Erin McCann
May 21, 2013
Transparency is a touchy subject in healthcare. It's one of the last market strongholds desperately clutching to its principles of secrecy, and it won't go down without a fight. But many experts say this stands as one of many reasons the industry continues to drag its feet in the innovation arena.
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Providers look to revenue cycle management to weather sequester and ICD-10
Diana Manos
May 17, 2013
Healthcare organizations will need to be more effective, cost efficient and productive in the future to not only survive, but also to maintain positive cash flows, according to Brian Fugere, COO of RemitDATA.
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Solving the Claim Overpayment Conundrum
Terry Cameron
May 17, 2013
Although “pay-and-chase” methods are still commonplace, health plans can supplement their recovery efforts with pre-payment analytics.
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Senate confirms Tavenner as CMS chief
Tom Sullivan
May 16, 2013
Marilyn Tavenner's confirmation as official administrator of CMS immediately drew positive reactions from nearly every corner of the industry and government, as several healthcare stakeholders reacted to the 91-7 landslide Senate vote that took place late Wednesday. Tavenner is the first administrator in nine years to receive Senate confirmation.
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$1B aimed at transforming healthcare
Bernie Monegain
May 16, 2013
Nearly $1 billion in new Health Care Innovation Awards from the Department of Health & Human Services will fund applicants that have a high likelihood of driving healthcare system transformation and delivering better outcomes. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced this second round of funding May 15.
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Post-discharge plans get mobile boost
Eric Wicklund
May 15, 2013
It's often been said that telehealth programs offer benefits to healthcare providers in both rural and urban settings. Vree Health is proving that point with two new contracts -- one in Big Sky Country, the other in the heavily populated Northeast.
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Is Design Important In Healthcare?
Joseph C. Kvedar
May 13, 2013
I’ve been in the healthcare delivery business now for 30 years and I can confidently say we’ve paid almost no attention to design. As we get closer to a world where we are engaging patients in their own health outcomes, design will be much more critical.
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The HIT Tipping Point: Intended and Unintended Financial Consequences
Edmund Billings, MD
May 10, 2013
A question: What is the opposite of health IT return on investment? The answer: Unintended financial consequences, or UFCs, for short.
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EHR boosts ROI, revenue for med group
Erin McCann
May 08, 2013
Larry Garber is a believer. The physician and medical director for informatics at Worcester, Mass.-based Reliant Medical Group has seen electronic health records make big, real life changes both financially and clinically, and now he's set out to spread the word.
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Private payers look to telemedicine
Chris Anderson
May 07, 2013
When it comes to paying for new procedures or new ways of delivering care, private insurers often keep their eyes on payment policies from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. If CMS begins compensation for a service, the private payers will likely follow.
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The year ahead for the ATA, telemedicine
Edward Brown, MD
May 06, 2013
Telemedicine as we know it has been around for almost 50 years. It has moved from humble beginnings as an experimental curiosity delivering rural healthcare to become something on track for mainstream acceptance across the healthcare system.
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AHIMA calls for coding guidelines
Diana Manos
May 06, 2013
Electronic health records, when used correctly, produce more accurate documentation leading to more complete coding, and ultimately, more accurate reimbursement claims, according to Sue Bowman, senior director of coding policy and compliance of the American Health Information Management Association.
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Private payers are advancing the use of telemedicine technology
Chris Anderson
May 05, 2013
When it comes to paying for new procedures or new ways of delivering care, private insurers often keep their eyes on payment policies from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. If CMS begins compensation for a service, the private payers will likely follow.
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CMS official offers details on MU audits
Frank Irving
May 03, 2013
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) this year implemented pre-payment audits on Medicare and dually eligible -- Medicare and Medicaid -- providers participating in the EHR Incentive Programs. The audit programs target between 5 and 10 percent of eligible professionals attesting for meaningful use, according to Elizabeth Holland, director of the HIT Initiatives Group within CMS' Office of E-Health Standards and Services.
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HHS, Archimedes partner on data
Bernie Monegain
May 02, 2013
The Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have formed what they call a first-of-its-kind partnership with San Francisco-based healthcare modeling and analytics company Archimedes to provide free and easy access to CMS synthetic claims data for any software developer.
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State Policy Summit tackles telehealth issues from the state level
Mike Miliard
May 01, 2013
With legislative activity on telehealth reaching unprecedented levels in state capitals across the country, the ATA has created its first-ever State Policy Summit, which will be held Wednesday, May 8, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Room 19A/B of the Austin Convention Center.
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Tavenner draws wide bipartisan support at Senate confirmation hearing
Diana Manos
April 28, 2013
Marilyn Tavenner, acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, received accolades from both sides of the aisle at a hearing on April 9 to consider her nomination to head CMS. Senate Finance Committee leaders indicated a decision would come soon.
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$12.7B paid in MU incentives so far
Diana Manos
April 28, 2013
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reports it has paid out nearly $12.7 billion in meaningful use incentive payments through February 2013, according to the latest figures available.
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HHS proposes $967B budget
Anthony Brino
April 28, 2013
The Department of Health and Human Services unveiled its $967 billion for the 2014 fiscal year on April 10. It includes funding increases for programs in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, early childhood education, mental health and substance abuse treatment and Affordable Care Act implementation, with certain portions of the budget subject to Congressional approval, such as a $1.5 billion request for federally-facilitated insurance exchanges.
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