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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services WHAT: CMS and ONC will host a press briefing to announce the final rules on Meaningful Use and Standards and Certification under the HITECH Act’s Electronic Health Records (EHR) incentive program. WHO: Kathleen Sebelius,...
Note: I am republishing this to my email subscribers because none of the links worked the first time around. I've fixed everything now - so sorry for the error - must have been healthcare fatigue!...
For more information on the Medicare accreditation requirement for entities billing the technical component for advanced diagnostic imaging (CT, MRI, PET/Nuclear Medicine) effective January 1, 2012, read my post here....
Report by Frank Cohen Frank Cohen, MPA, MBB The Frank Cohen Group, LLC As many of you may already know, July 1, 2010 CMS released yet another RBRVS (Resource Based Relative Value Scale) data set that will be used to pay physicians under Medicare effective June 1,...
Note: I am very pleased to welcome the eloquent Dr. Charles of Examining Room fame to Manage My Practice. On his website, Dr. Charles tells us " I am a family medicine physician" and says "Home-grown tomatoes have a special place in my heart." What Makes Us Happy by...
Amara's law ”” "We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run." (think EMR) Asimov's three laws of robotics ”” Also called, more simply, the Three Laws of Robotics or just the Three Laws, a set of...
William of Ockham was a 14th-century English logician, theologian and Franciscan friar and although Occam's Razor bears his name, it is suspected that he did not originate it, only that he repeated it repeatedly! Occam's Razor is the principle that "entities must not...
The Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act (or Check 21 Act) is a United States federal law, Pub.L. 108-100, enacted into law October 28, 2003 by the 108th Congress. It took effect one year later, on October 28, 2004. The law allows the recipient of the original...
Providers have the opportunity to participate with Medicare once annually. This period called "Open Enrollment" is usually from mid-November to the end of the calendar year. Providers who may have declined to participate with Medicare for the 2010 calendar year due...
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