Category: CMS

In what has been a recurring theme, ICD-10 stakeholders are concerned with the testing practices by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). In what has been a recurring theme, ICD-10 stakeholders are concerned with the testing practices by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The latest findings were revealed in a…

Medicare’s final decision to cover computed tomography (CT) lung cancer screening gives seniors at high-risk for the disease access to care that can save more lives than any cancer screening test in history. …read more Source:: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150208/Medicare-coverage-of-CT-lung-cancer-screening-can-save-more-lives.aspx       

Foley Hoag LLP has launched a new blog to highlight and explain current legal and policy issues in the Medicaid program and how they will play out in the public policy arena. …read more Source:: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150206/Foley-Hoage28099s-new-blog-highlights-current-legal-issues-in-Medicaid-program.aspx       

I love taking email exchanges I have with practicing doctors and making their comments into posts. This is one of those cases. The following is a quote from an email I got from a physician friend of mine about his EHR (EHR name removed): Every time we turn around these days our EHR vendor is…

By Deborah Leyva As I am writing the 1st Edition of the ACO Survival Guide and reflecting on the need for comprehensive patient data to monitor clinical, operational and financial metrics, I chose to create an interactive test file of the median cost of Primary Care in Pinellas County Florida for calendar year 2012. The following…

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will begin a regulatory process to change the 2015 EHR reporting period to 90-days and make additional changes to the design of meaningful use, chief medical officer Patrick Conway, M.D. announced last week. Top News CMS to Grant Providers Shortened Reporting Period in 2015, Signals Additional Changes…

As a follow-up to one of our Top Ten Tech Trends, HCI takes an extended look at a readmissions reductions program that is centered around following the patient along the care continuum. Reducing hospital readmissions is one of many initiatives the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has launched to help improve the quality…

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has finally agreed to give providers a reprieve, announcing that it intends to issue a new rule that would “update” the Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive programs, and shorten the attesting reporting period in 2015 from 365 days to 90 days in order to “accommodate” these changes. read…

In news that will surely make much of the healthcare IT world happy, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced its intentions to shorten meaningful use reporting in 2015 from a full-year to 90-days. In news that will surely make much of the healthcare IT world happy, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid…

0 The set of announcements around Medicare payment reform released on Jan. 26 by the Department of Health and Human Services couldn’t be any clearer on the fundamental direction in which federal reimbursement is headed The bundle of announcements that came out of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) around payment reform…