On May 20, 2014, CMS announced a proposed rule intended to help providers make use of Certified EHR Technology (CERT). The proposed rule would allow providers reporting the 2014 period for Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive programs to use EHRs that have been certified under the 2011 Edition, a com... Read More
As most of us have either heard or seen by now, CMS released a data dump of Medicare utilization by NPI number last month and since then, newspaper articles have flourished about how physicians are simply making too much money off of Medicare. The facts are this — only around 70% of the utiliz... Read More
We have released some major enhancements to our signature Find-A-Code Search Tool! Now you can quickly narrow search results to a single code set by typing the abbreviation before the keyword, for example "CPT Chest Xray" or "ICD9 Gastric Reflux".If one of the results is a Chapter/Section... Read More
On May 1, 2014, CMS released the following statement regarding ICD-10:
On April 1, 2014, the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA) (Pub. L. No. 113-93) was enacted, which said that the Secretary may not adopt ICD-10 prior to October 1, 2015. Accordingly, the U.S. Department of Heal... Read More
CMS Issues Proposed Hospital Inpatient Payment Regulation
Proposed rule would strengthen tie between payment and quality improvement
On April 30, CMS issued a proposed rul... Read More
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