tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2008 Issue 23

Industry Notes: Advisory Opinion Approves Hospital's Software That Communicates With Physicians' EHRs

Plus: Practitioners in S. Florida made up 20 percent of Medicare fraud cases When it comes to the physician self-referral law, CMS doesn't kid around. So it was good news this week when CMS issued an advisory opinion in favor of a hospital's plan to develop software that will interface with physicians' electronic health records (EHRs). The hospital in this case wanted its software to be able to communicate with physicians' EHRs so hospital employees could send information such as lab results or surgical details between the two systems. In the advisory opinion, CMS states that the arrangement "does...

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