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At a press conference last Thursday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius and Attorney General Eric Holder announced the creation of a "Public-Private Partnership" to prevent healthcare fraud. The voluntary partnership between federal and state...
The proposed, but not finalized, deadline for ICD-10 is October 2014. Most coding experts recommend training staff 6 months before the deadline. What's a practice to do with the other 18 months? Who chooses the ICD-9s in your practice today? There are many methods...
There has been a lot of talk about why our emergency departments are often overloaded with patients seeking primary care, not emergency care. This video explains EMTALA, the law surrounding access to emergency treatment in hospitals.
Reminder: Bob's leadership book Heart and Soul in the Boardroom is now available in the MMP Store! With the baseball season in full swing we get to see the importance of talent as related to results. Those teams that lack talent or lose talent due to injury find...
Is a medication shortage causing you to use single dose vials for more than one patient? On July 13, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report detailing two life-threatening outbreaks that occurred when healthcare providers used medication...
According to Charles Duhigg in his newly released book, The Power of Habit, Rhode Island Hospital was one of the nation's leading medical institutions. It was the teaching hospital for Brown University and the only Level I trauma center in southeastern New England....
You wouldn't think that a simple thing like the place of service would have the potential to cause a $9.5M overpayment by Medicare. But that is the figure the OIG (Office of the Inspector General) says it estimates that Medicare contractors overpaid physicians for...
The most exciting thing for me about being in healthcare today is the contrast between steep challenges the industry faces on so many fronts - and the vast potential offered by biological and information technology. We do have some dragons to slay, but we also have...
As they have since 2006, the American Medical Association released updated CPT codes for vaccines last week ahead of the 2013 official code book release. Some of the highlights of the semi-annual report: Code 90653 - has been ACCEPTED for inclusion in the 2013...
On July 6, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that would increase payments to family physicians by approximately 7 percent and other practitioners providing primary care services between 3 and 5 percent. The increase in payment...
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