by Mary Pat Whaley | May 30, 2010 | Electronic Medical Records, Headlines, Medicare & Reimbursement
Note: read my latest post on getting the EHR Incentives here. Medicare Definition of Eligible Provider (EP) For Medicare, physicians and some hospitals are eligible providers. “Physicians” includes doctors of medicine (MD) or osteopathy (DO), dentists or...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Apr 19, 2010 | Day-to-Day Operations, Medicare & Reimbursement
When a payer or health plan calls your practice and requests records or requests an on-site visit to review charts, follow this guideline: Be professional at all times. Audits can be nerve-wracking and can be a drain on internal resources, but there is always...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Mar 31, 2010 | Electronic Medical Records
Everyone is waiting for the other shoe to drop on Medicare payments. Private practices may not have the in-house expertise to implement an EMR and may not be able to afford a consultant (although some states are receiving grants to help practices – check your...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Mar 7, 2010 | Electronic Medical Records, Headlines, Medicare & Reimbursement
NOTE: Read my latest post on how to register and attest for the EHR Incentive Programs here. Where Did the Idea of Meaningful Use of Electronic Medical Records Come From? The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was signed by President Obama on February 17,...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Dec 14, 2009 | Electronic Medical Records, Medicare & Reimbursement
If you don’t have the following ten items on a manual checklist or in your EMR, you might want to add them. Any time I hear someone list things that improve quality of life and downstream health, I think to myself “This is future reimbursement...
