Latest report on EHR adoption and interoperability was released by Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). Information that was collected from non-federal acute care hospitals...
CMS recently released a final interim rule that eases some restrictions laid on CO-OP health insurers. Experts believe that it is an attempt by CMS to keep CO-OPs from...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is all set to release 5,500 new codes in October in the wake of smooth ICD 10 transition. Though that sounds...
Expressing concern on the surge in cyber threats in the country, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) Board Chair, Marc Probst said in a recent interview that...
The Council for Quality Respiratory Care (CQRC) recently said that the data released by CMS in their latest competitive bidding report does not truly reflect on the effect of...
The subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee met on April 19 to hear testimonies from physicians about progress in MACRA implementation. This is the second such hearing,...
Along with the proposed rule that CMS recently released, the agency will attempt to garner comments on several other documents related to MACRA implementation. One of these requests concerns...
With more and more government funding flowing into healthcare, pressure on providers to optimize their operations has been building heavily. The latter is aimed at making the best...
At the beginning of the month, the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) let out a redone audit protocol, which addresses the requirements of...
CMS entered their 45-day review and dispute timeline of the Open Payments program earlier this month. For physicians, this is the perfect time to review financial information brought to...
The FDA has just announced their proposal to ban most of the powdered gloves in the country. The use of such gloves is going down, but still, they comprise...
Tax season is upon us, and physicians especially will feel a chill in the air that has nothing to do with the temperature. It is the time of the...
National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) received an oral and written testimony from Dave Nicholson, HBMA Government Relations Committee Member last month. The testimony covers various topics...
What sets big companies such as the likes of Coca-Cola, IBM, and Macy’s together, despite the fact that they serve different industries? The one new thing they have in...
The administration is certainly laying out a plan for the post-SGR period. With the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 passed, the Medicare program will be moving...
The Affordable Care Act was enacted in 2010 and it is highly regarded as the signature piece of legislation under Obama Administration. Nevertheless, the Republicans in America have been...
CMS finalized the proposed bundle payment system for its hip and knee replacement surgery known as the CCJR model on November 16. Even though the final rule makes some...
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) invited recommendations and proposals from the public on improving OIG Special Fraud Alerts and...
The move to ICD-10 has apparently evaded most of the obstacles healthcare stakeholders predicted. Despite that, HBMA members have uncovered many challenges in the transition to the new coding...
The report issued by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to the Congress turns out to be in favor of neutral payments. The report addressed the increasing trend of consolidation...