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ONC Holds A Key To the Structural Deficit

Published Sat, Apr 04 2013 7:30 AM by The Doctor Weighs In

Filed under: Medicare, CMS, Meaningful Use, EHR, Health IT, HITECH, ONC, Health information technology, electronic health records, data security, interoperability, HHS, Shared Savings, social security, People in healthcare, Doctor-patient relationship, Health care professionals, Technology in healthcare, consumer engagement, Health care & health policy, Politics & public policy, transparency, Change Management, employers and health insurance, TED talks about health, health information exchanges, health insurance exchanges, Society for Participatory Medicine, health care costs, patient advocates, health care incentives, unnecessary services, Triple Aim, The Health Care Blog, subsidies, patient privacy, health care technology, DirectTrust, Blue Button Plus, CommonWell, Adrian Gropper MD, pricing transparency, consolidation
Pierce Graham-Jones Talks Blue Button Plus

Published Tue, Mar 03 2013 3:47 AM by The Doctor Weighs In

Filed under: Medicare, EHR, Health IT, electronic health records, Social Media, HHS, Entrepreneurs, mobile health, People in healthcare, Health care professionals, mobile apps, mHealth, Blue Button, Technology in healthcare, wireless health, Innovation/innovative companies, Payment, Forbes, Health care & health policy, disruptive innovation, Salber, Change Management, health insurance claims, innovators, Health and Human Services, Pat Salber, healthcare data, Blue Button Plus, Gregg Masters, HIBC.tv
Summer 2012 Recap – iHT2 Industry Report

Published Sun, Sep 09 2012 3:00 AM by The Doctor Weighs In

Filed under: Medicare, doctors, CMS, ROI, Medicaid, ACOs, trends, Institute for Health Technology Transformation, hospitals, HHS, Patient Safety, Innovation, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Announcements, Affordable Care Act, health technology, Kathleen Sebelius, People in healthcare, Health care professionals, Rock Health, venture capital, FFS, Burrill & Company, Technology in healthcare, New York City, Innovation/innovative companies, Payment, digital health, big data, Health care & health policy, Politics & public policy, Medicine: wellness & disease, Obamacare, patient -centered care, Change Management, Castlight Health, Fee-For-Service, iHT2, Startups, MEDICARE SHARED SAVINGS PROGRAM, high risk patients, New York Academy of Medicine, iHT2 Health IT Summit, Christian Chai, summer 2012, cost savings, Children's Health Insurance Program, Safety and Efficiency”, Health and Human Services, OIPDA, life science investors, better coordinated care, healthcare stakeholders, innovative workforce development and deployment, health care quality improvement, data capture and usability, patient privacy, increased funding, transformative power of technology, health centers, CMS Health Care Innovation Awards, analytic tool, lowering health care costs, raising the standard of care, "7 Innovative Digital Health Companies to Watch", data leverage, creative care models, higher quality care, Office of Information Products and Data Analytics, online peer-reviewed journal, new data and information initiative, collection organization and analysis of large sets of data, comprehensive data sets, industry report, healthcare pricing tool, G. Steven Burill, David Hunt, value-based model, working together, federal savings, CMS information search tool, “Clinicians’ Role in IT: ONC Guidance for Optimizing Quality, digital health funding report, expanding pool of information, high opportunity patients, Health Care Innovation Challenge Initiative, The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
ONC: no caps on per-provider EHR incentive payments

National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari has announced there is no cap on how much individual providers may receive in meaningful use incentive payouts, as long as they meet the requirements for the EHR incentive payments program. According...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2012 2:51 PM by Health IT Law Blog

Filed under: news, Medicare, hipaa, Meaningful Use, electronic health record, EHR, Health IT, ARRA, HIMSS, ONC, Medicaid, health information exchange, Articles, HHS, HITECH Act, Stage 2, EHR Incentive Program, Farzad Mostashari, MU, Meaningful Use Stage 2, population health, Higher education, Higher Ed, Stage 1, incentive payment program, health information exchange standards, meaningful use incentive program, EHR incentive payouts, National Coordinator for Health IT, Health Information Management and Systems Society, health data exchange, patient information, compatible coding
ONC announces five organizations to serve as EHR certifiers

In preparation for the launching of ONC's permanent EHR system testing and certification program, part of the EHR incentive payment initiative, ONC has authorized five groups as permanent EHR certifiers. Via Modern Healthcare : Even though the new...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2012 2:37 PM by Health IT Law Blog

Filed under: news, Medicare, hipaa, electronic health record, ARRA, ONC, Medicaid, Articles, American National Standards Institute, HHS, HITECH Act, Privacy & Security, EHR Incentive Program, Higher education, Higher Ed, EHR system, National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program, EHR certifiers, testing laboratories, certification program, incentive payment program, testing and certifying, EHR testing, Stage 1 certification, accredited
CMS Releases January 2012 EHR Incentive Program Data and Reports

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released January 2012 Data and Reports for the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs. The reports indicate that the EHR programs have surpassed another major...

Published Sat, Feb 02 2012 5:37 PM by Ethan W. Moore

Filed under: Medicare, CMS, Meaningful Use, electronic health record, EHR, Healthcare, HITECH, ARRA, ONC, Medicaid, HIT, Health information technology, attestation, Healthcare News, Health care, HHS, Incentive payments, HITECH Act, Health Care Reform, EHR incentive, Incentive Program, Ethan W. Moore, Ethan Moore, EHR Incentive Programs, Registration, Attest, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Thirty days into 5010… is there an ICD-10 code for this?

A month into 5010 and the fall out for all involved is frustrating, disruptive and at times financially devastating. I knew that a single deadline for all parties involved would cause additional challenges, but the constant adjusting of the radio dial (mentioned in my previous blog post) is not only disruptive, it is becoming almost impossible to track/follow. Yesterday, the… Read more

Published Thu, Feb 02 2012 10:53 PM by AdvancedMD | MDBlog

Filed under: Regulatory, Medicare, AdvancedMD, 5010, CMS, claims, HHS, MGMA, Coding, Deadline, ICD10, Payment, hold times, denial, rejjection, exclusion
HHS extends Stage 2 Meaningful Use deadline to 2014

HHS announced today that the government intends to make it easier for healthcare providers to adopt electronic health records (EHRs). As part of this initiative, HHS decided to extend the deadline for meeting Stage 2 of Meaningful Use until 2014. Via...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2011 3:25 PM by Health IT Law Blog

Filed under: news, 2, Medicare, HITECH, ARRA, Articles, HHS, HITECH Act, Stage, 2014, meaingful use, Incentive, payments
Interactive Map with Medicaid Fraud Control Units’ Statistical Data for FY 2010

1Investigations are defined as the total number of open investigations at the end of the fiscal year. 2 Recoveries are defined as the amount of money that defendants are required to pay as a result of a settlement, judgment, or prefiling settlement in...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2011 7:45 AM by The Voyager - Helping Physicians Navigate The Healthcare Industry

Filed under: Medicare, CMS, Medicaid, Health care, HHS, OIG, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS), HHS Updates, Fraud, Medicaid Expenditures, MFCU, Medicaid Fraud Control
Review of Medicare Outpatient Billing for Selected Drugs at Central Peninsula General Hospital (A-09-11-02033)

Contrary to Federal requirements, Central Peninsula General Hospital billed Medicare for the incorrect number of units of service of doxorubicin hydrochloride liposome and paclitaxel administered. As a result, Central Peninsula received overpayments totaling...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2011 2:11 PM by The Voyager - Helping Physicians Navigate The Healthcare Industry

Filed under: Medicare, CMS, Medicaid, Health care, HHS, OIG, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS), HHS Updates, Medicare Outpatient Billing, Central Peninsula General Hospital
Review of Medicare Outpatient Billing for a Selected Drug at Madison Memorial Hospital (A-09-11-02051)

Contrary to Federal requirements, Madison Memorial Hospital billed Medicare for the incorrect number of units of service of infliximab administered. As a result, Madison Memorial received overpayments totaling $32,000. http://oig.hhs.gov/oas/reports/region9...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2011 1:05 PM by The Voyager - Helping Physicians Navigate The Healthcare Industry

Filed under: Medicare, CMS, Medicaid, Health care, HHS, OIG, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS), Madison Memorial Hospital, Medicare Outpatient Billing
Monthly Recovery Act Report: August

http://oig.hhs.gov/reports-and-publications/recovery/index.asp?FileName=201108_recovery_update.asp. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ How To Get All The Patient Referrals You Can Handle!!! As a...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2011 11:24 AM by The Voyager - Helping Physicians Navigate The Healthcare Industry

Filed under: Medicare, CMS, Medicaid, Health care, HHS, OIG, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS), HHS Updates, Monthly Recovery Act Report
Medicare Open Enrollment begins Saturday — seniors have more benefits, better choices, lower costs

Affordable Care Act gives seniors with Medicare cheaper prescription drugs, free preventive services, and lower costs With more benefits, better choices and lower costs, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is encouraging people with...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2011 9:29 AM by The Voyager - Helping Physicians Navigate The Healthcare Industry

Filed under: Medicare, CMS, Medicaid, Health care, HHS, OIG, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS), Protecting Against Fraud and Identity Theft, Open Enrollment
Advisory Opinion 11-15

Advisory Opinion 11-15 (concerning a proposal under which physicians would invest in a company that would provide pathology laboratory management services to a third party.) http://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/docs/advisoryopinions/2011/AdvOpn11-15.pdf ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2011 10:50 AM by The Voyager - Helping Physicians Navigate The Healthcare Industry

Filed under: Medicare, CMS, Medicaid, Health care, HHS, OIG, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS), HHS Updates, Advisory Opinion
Fiscal Year 2012 Work Plan

The Office of Inspector General’s ( OlG ) Work Plan sets forth various projects to be addressed during the fiscal year by the Office of Audit Services, Office of Evaluation and Inspections, Office of Investigations, and Office of Counsel to the...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2011 4:40 PM by The Voyager - Helping Physicians Navigate The Healthcare Industry

Filed under: Medicare, CMS, Medicaid, Health care, HHS, OIG, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS), HHS Updates, Fiscal Year 2012, Government Management Reform Act, HHS OIG Work Plan

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