by Mary Pat Whaley | Aug 12, 2013 | General
The healthcare industry has gone through a lot of change very quickly in the past five years, with still more to come. Independent practices and smaller physician groups have a lot of reason to “seek higher ground” in mergers, partnerships, and buyouts by...
by Abraham Whaley | May 1, 2013 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Compliance, Day-to-Day Operations, Electronic Medical Records, Finance, Headlines, Medicare & Reimbursement, Quality
NOTE: CMS has just added additional presentations of the webinar below – please check the end of the article for added dates. MPW What is PQRS? The Physician Quality Reporting System (Physician Quality Reporting or PQRS) is a CMS reporting program...
by Abraham Whaley | Mar 18, 2013 | Day-to-Day Operations, Headlines
Meaningful Use (MU) Meaningful Use is the phrase used in the 2009 HITECH Act to describe the standard providers must achieve to receive incentive payments for purchasing and implementing an EHR system. The term meaningful use combines clinical use of the EHR (i.e....
by Abraham Whaley | Feb 10, 2013 | Compliance, Day-to-Day Operations, Electronic Medical Records, Finance, Headlines, Medicare & Reimbursement
If you read my alert from August or the followup article on Audit Red Flags to Avoid, you are aware that CMS hired an accounting firm, Figliozzi & Company, to audit the compliance of eligible providers and eligible hospitals that had already received payment under...
by Abraham Whaley | Jan 8, 2013 | Day-to-Day Operations, Electronic Medical Records, Headlines
Too often in the rush to upgrade to the newest technology, one basic question that goes unanswered is: “Why are we doing this?” Because of the ARRA (or “stimulus”) money available to eligible providers, a lot of offices have started or...
