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Obama signs doc fix, ICD-10 delay into law
President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed H.R. 4302, which was just passed through the Senate Monday, implementing a 12-month patch to the sustainable growth rate payment formula that will prevent deep Medicare payment cuts for physicians and delaying ICD-10 until at least October 1, 2015. read more …read more
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Readers Write: Below the Waterline: Is Your Network Population-Health Ready?
Below the Waterline: Is Your Network Population-Health Ready? By Nancy Ham Historically, health information exchange (HIE) implied the tactical, the plumbing and pipes that enable movement of health-related information among organizations according to national standards. Today an HIE network is a strategic asset vital to population health management. Health organizations must supply more than bricks…
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Clarity on the New Diagnostic Imaging Ordering Mandate in the “Doc Fix”/ICD-10 Law
When President Obama signed into law on April 2 legislation to provide a 12-month “patch” to avert physician pay cuts under Medicare’s SGR law, he also approved new requirements regarding clinical decision support in the ordering of diagnostic imaging tests When President Barack Obama signed into law on Wednesday, April 2 legislation intended to provide…
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UPDATE: Obama Signs Legislation, ICD-10 Delayed
With the official signature of President Barack Obama for the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014, the compliance date of ICD-10 is officially delayed one year until Oct. 1, 2015. With the official signature of President Barack Obama for the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014, the compliance date of ICD-10 is officially…
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ICD-10 delay: How providers should respond
While it’s clear that the ICD-10 deadline will be pushed back for the second time in nearly two years thanks to the inclusion of a delay in the latest sustainable growth rate patch legislation, what’s not so clear is what comes next for both providers and payers. In a pair of recent posts, Deloitte Healthcare…
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Study: 7 different federal definitions of telehealth
Federal efforts to define and advance telehealth are certainly a work in progress as nationwide and state-based laws are developed. A new study explores seven unique definitions of telehealth in current use across the U.S. government. read more …read more
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HIMSS offers CMS recommendations to facilitate MU Stage 2
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, concerned that providers may struggle to meet the more stringent requirements of Stage 2 of the Meaningful Use program, has released recommendations to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to help the agency maximize the number of successful attesters this year. read more …read more
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VA touts gains of 44% in reducing claims backlog in past year
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced this week that it has reduced its claims backlog by about 44 percent to 344,000 claims from more than 611,000 last March. read more …read more
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First Edition: April 2, 2014
Today’s headlines include news and analysis about the 7 million insurance enrollment tally. Reporting for Kaiser Health News, in partnership with NPR, Eric Whitney writes: “The names of the big health insurance companies are familiar – Blue Cross, Aetna, United Healthcare. But what about CoOportunity Health, or Health Republic Insurance of New York? These are…
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Data Capture: The Beginning Of Analytics In Healthcare
Analytics can help improve outcomes in healthcare, and capturing data through EHRs is a vital step in the process By Andy Tippet, healthcare practice lead – Americas, Zebra Technologies …read more