by Mary Pat Whaley | Dec 14, 2011 | Compliance, Electronic Medical Records, General
Mary Pat: Where does the name of your company, Lutrum, come from? Ed Garay: When I was developing a name for this company, I didn’t want to be like every other healthcare IT services company with health, md, medical, etc. as part of their name. I wanted it to...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Dec 4, 2011 | Headlines, Medicare & Reimbursement
I haven’t written much about the impending 29% Medicare physician payment cut. This threatened cut has happened every year for the past 10 years. Every year at the last second, Washington is convinced that if cuts take place, physicians really will stop seeing...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Nov 27, 2011 | Electronic Medical Records
This is a guest post from Joe Hage, CEO of medical device marketing consultancy Medical Marcom. My friend Michael Paquin is a fellow of HIMSS, the Health Information Management Systems Society, and an expert in EMR connectivity, Meaningful Use, and the pitfalls of...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Nov 25, 2011 | Collections, Billing & Coding
Mary Pat: If you remember, my friend Bob decided he wanted to become a medical coder and asked for help. He chose Allied Schools because he felt he made a connection with the people at Allied and they also offered an attractive payment plan. Bob has started the...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Nov 17, 2011 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Headlines, Medicare & Reimbursement
CMS Announces 90-Day Period of Enforcement Discretion for Compliance with New HIPAA Transaction Standards Today the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Office of E-Health Standards and Services (OESS) announced that it would not initiate enforcement action...
