Clinicians slow to adapt to digital medicine have until June 30 to electronically transmit 10 prescriptions to the pharmacy for Medicare patients, and thereby avoid a 2% cut in their Medicare reimbursement next year. The 2% penalty is the punitive side of a federal program designed to motivate physicians...
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Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) has introduced a bill (HR 1701) that would prohibit HHS from mandating that health care providers switch to ICD-10 code sets, ICD-10 Watch reports (Natale, ICD-10 Watch, 4/25). About ICD-10 U.S. health care organizations are working to transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 code sets...
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Made available through the ONC’s National Rural Health Resource Center, the toolkit provides a set of “practical” HIE resources designed to help rural health stakeholders, including State Offices of Rural Health and Flex Programs, rural hospitals and clinics, critical access hospitals...
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