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Physician Practices are you prepared for ICD-10?
Steps you can take now: Talk about ICD-10 at regular staff meetings so the issue is always top-of-mind. Create an action team. The team should include practice leadership, including clinicians for the...
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Medicare Announces 2013 Physician Fee Schedule
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the final rule on November 1, 2012, that will revise several reimbursement payment policies and rates for services furnished under the...
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CMS introduces easy way to start PQRS reporting, avoid 2015 payment cuts
Want CMS to do all of the work to satisfy physician quality reporting system (PQRS) requirements for you – helping you avoid a 1.5% cut to your Medicare payments? Beginning in 2015, all providers not...
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Medicare Cuts Averted for 2 Months
The 26.5% cut in Medicare reimbursement mandated by the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula was averted in a literal 11th hour vote Tuesday in the House of Representatives. The House vote to pass the...
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Final HIPAA rule puts proof burden on covered entities
The HIPAA Privacy and Security final rule, released Jan. 17, to a large extent tracks what was in the proposed rule, but also brings some significant changes that will have impact on healthcare,...
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CGS: Administration Influenza Allowable from CGS
CGS has released the administration influenza allowable for 2013. The 2013 Physician Fee Schedule has been revised and is available in PDF and CSV Formats under option 3 of the Fee schedule page, then...
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CMS Says Sequester Medicare Pay Cut to Kick in April 1
On March 1, 2013, President Obama issued a sequestration order directing the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to administer across-the-board cuts to federal spending. Physicians treating Medicare...
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CMS: Diabetics now eligible for hepatitis B vaccines
Expect a revenue boost from vaccines now that CMS has listed diabetic patients as high risk for Hepatitis B contraction. In a May 10 transmittal, CMS announced that “[patients] diagnosed with diabetes...
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SGR Bill Advances
Physician groups voiced general support for a bill approved Tuesday by a Congressional subcommittee to replace Medicare’s sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula. The bill, which the subcommittee...
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Medicare Announces Physician Reimbursement Tied To Quality
Medicare has released their timeline for rolling out the program which would pay or penalize physicians based on their performance by 2015. Read the entire article here.
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