by Mary Pat Whaley | Oct 21, 2012 | Electronic Medical Records, Medicare & Reimbursement, Medicare This Week
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) just announced that the Quality Reporting Communication Support Page (where you go to apply for one of the four hardship exemptions from the 2013 1.5% Medicare payment reduction) will re-open November 1, 2012...
by Abraham Whaley | Oct 16, 2012 | Compliance, Day-to-Day Operations, Electronic Medical Records, The Manager's Minute (Video)
In Episode #11, Mary Pat discusses the Medication Reconciliation process, and how it can benefit your practice whether you use paper or electronic records.
by Mary Pat Whaley | Oct 8, 2012 | Electronic Medical Records, Innovation, Learn This: Technology Answers
Since first hitting the market in January 2010, the iPad and its successors have been somewhat of an anomaly in healthcare technology. Outside of cutting edge clinical treatments, the healthcare industry normally lags behind other sectors in adopting new technology....
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jul 29, 2012 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Electronic Medical Records, Medicare & Reimbursement
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...
by Abraham Whaley | Jul 16, 2012 | Electronic Medical Records, Innovation
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...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jul 9, 2012 | Electronic Medical Records, Medicare & Reimbursement, Medicare This Week, Quality
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...
