We all know about the Meaningful Use penalties. The PQRS penalties. The Value Based Modifier penalties. Individually, they’d all be annoying, but I...
Meaningful Use Penalties
Michelle has posted an interesting CMS analysis of the price of EHR penalties for physicians: CMS reports that the majority of physicians who will be penalized...
Over on EMR and HIPAA, I got the following passionate response on my post titled Meaningful Use Created A Big Need for Certified MAs that I thought many...
The people at DataMotion, cloud based HISP providers, sent me the following infographic covering the HIPAA data breaches. It’s a good reminder of the...
CMS has announced its intent to reopen the Meaningful Use Hardship Exceptions filing period and set the new deadline for MU hardship exceptions to November 30...
Eligible professionals (EPs) participating in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program may be subject to payment adjustments beginning on January 1, 2015. CMS will...
The news just came out that Health Management Associates, Inc. (“HMA”) did not meet the meaningful use requirements necessary to receive the EHR...
Let me state the obvious. An EHR implementation in a hospital is a time consuming and expensive effort. While the idea of switching EMR software is a palpable...
I got an email from CMS which does a great job summarizing the coming EHR Medicaid penalties (they prefer to call them Medicaid payment adjustments). I thought...
A bill has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives (HR 1309) which would eliminate Medicare reimbursement penalties for some physicians who can't...