by Mary Pat Whaley | Jun 11, 2009 | Headlines
Statement to the press by WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan 11 June 2009 World now at the start of 2009 influenza pandemic Dr Margaret Chan Director-General of the World Health Organization Ladies and gentlemen, In late April, WHO announced the emergence of a...
by Mary Pat Whaley | May 3, 2009 | Day-to-Day Operations, Headlines
The HHS and the CDC have developed lots of widgets that you can place on your practice website to give your patients the latest information on the swine flu. You can get a widget for your practice website from HHS here or from CDC here. These sites also provide...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Apr 23, 2009 | Finance, Headlines, Medicare & Reimbursement
A typical standard operating procedure in many practices when adding a new physician is to phase in his/her schedule as s/he becomes credentialed by each payer. Traditionally, new physicians have been able to see Medicare patients immediately due to the Medicare...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Apr 12, 2009 | Electronic Medical Records, Headlines, Medicare & Reimbursement
ARRA: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also called “The Stimulus Package” or “The Stimulus Bill.” Of the $850B in the bill, $51B is pegged for the health care industry and $19B of that will be used to incent medical practices...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Apr 6, 2009 | Headlines, Medicare & Reimbursement
By Carla Hannibal, CMM,CPM,CIMBS Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) will pursue corrections of Medicare claims by auditing for overpayments and underpayments under Part A or B of the title XVIII of the Social Security Act. Health care providers will be affected as...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Mar 25, 2009 | Electronic Medical Records, Headlines, Learn This: Technology Answers
An excellent article on EHRs and CCHIT was pointed out to me recently and I thought I’d pass it along to my readers. To answer the question “What is CCHIT?”, the site SoftwareAdvice says this: CCHIT is a private, non-profit organization formed to...
