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  • CMS Pushes Back Deadline for Medicare EHR Incentive Program

    CMS Pushes Back Deadline for Medicare EHR Incentive Program

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    The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is giving Medicare-eligible professionals a few extra weeks to attest to meaningful use for the Medicare Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program 2014 reporting year. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is giving Medicare-eligible professionals a few extra weeks to attest to meaningful use for…

  • Washington Debrief: CMS Seeks Input on Primary Care Innovations

    Washington Debrief: CMS Seeks Input on Primary Care Innovations

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    The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) asking for input on how to test new models of advanced primary care. The deadline for comment is March 16, 2015. The RFI includes questions specific to how providers could use health IT to support advanced primary care. Top News…

  • Texas Medicaid uses remote monitoring to engage patients with diabetes

    Texas Medicaid uses remote monitoring to engage patients with diabetes

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    Cigna-HealthSpring is teaming with Telcare to provide remote monitoring and care engagement services to diabetes patients in the Texas Medicaid STAR+PLUS program. read more …read more Source:: http://www.fiercemobilehealthcare.com/story/texas-medicaid-uses-remote-monitoring-engage-patients-diabetes/2015-02-22?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss       

  • Forging Ahead on MSSP Progress in Small-Town North Carolina: Coastal Carolina’s ACO Experience

    Forging Ahead on MSSP Progress in Small-Town North Carolina: Coastal Carolina’s ACO Experience

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    Stephen Nuckolls and his colleagues at Coastal Carolina are proving that the ACO model of care can work in eastern North Carolina It would be easy to fall into lazy thinking and imagine that most of the innovation in the development and forward evolution of accountable care organizations (ACOs) were taking place in large metropolitan…

  • Four Pennsylvania Healthcare Orgs Form Medicare ACO

    Four Pennsylvania Healthcare Orgs Form Medicare ACO

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    Four regional Pennsylvania healthcare organizations are collaborating to form a Medicare Shared Savings Program accountable care organization (ACO), called Penn State Health Care Partners. Four regional Pennsylvania healthcare organizations are collaborating to form a Medicare Shared Savings Program accountable care organization (ACO), called Penn State Health Care Partners. read more …read more Source:: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/healthcare-informatics/~3/5Nw5w1X5Elk/four-pennsylvania-healthcare-orgs-form-medicare-aco       

  • Making the “Mobile” Rounds to Improve Patient Satisfaction

    Making the “Mobile” Rounds to Improve Patient Satisfaction

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    At the Ohio-based Genesis HealthCare System, leaders have recognized the importance of improving patient satisfaction, and have implemented mobile rounding solution that captures patient feedback in real-time to better their experience. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), hospitals, and insurers alike are striving to better define and measure quality of healthcare, of which…

  • CMS Oncology Care Model requires Meaningful Use participation

    CMS Oncology Care Model requires Meaningful Use participation

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    The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is continuing to use its payment programs to reward providers who embrace electronic health records and the Meaningful Use program, this time by including attestation as a requirement to participating in the agency’s new Oncology Care Model. read more …read more Source:: http://www.fierceemr.com/story/cms-oncology-care-model-requires-meaningful-use-participation/2015-02-16?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss       

  • CMS: Providers face millions in Meaningful Use penalties

    CMS: Providers face millions in Meaningful Use penalties

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    The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services estimates that eligible providers who are subject to penalties under the Meaningful Use program could pay roughly $200 million in 2015. That figure was shared by CMS officials at a joint meeting of the Office of the National Coordinator’s Health IT Policy and Standards committees. read more …read…

  • AMGA submits comment letter to CMS regarding proposed rule on Medicare Shared Savings Program

    AMGA submits comment letter to CMS regarding proposed rule on Medicare Shared Savings Program

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    On Friday, the American Medical Group Association (AMGA) drafted and submitted a comment letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding the proposed rule on refinements to the current framework of the Medicare Shared Savings Program. …read more Source:: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150212/AMGA-submits-comment-letter-to-CMS-regarding-proposed-rule-on-Medicare-Shared-Savings-Program.aspx       

  • Researchers: Web-Based Report Cards Influence the Cost of Care

    Researchers: Web-Based Report Cards Influence the Cost of Care

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    A recent study revealed that Medicare’s Hospital Compare website, which compares quality data, has led to a reduced increase in the price of two costly cardiac procedures. A healthcare economist explains to HCI why the result is surprising. It has a long way to go, but Medicare’s Hospital Compare initiative may go a long way…