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 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...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jun 24, 2012 | 12 Ways to Supercharge Your Practice, General
Medicare has so many programs that have the potential to increase or decrease your payments that practices need a list to keep them straight. Here’s your list with information on which programs are mutually exclusive and which can be combined. 1....
by Abraham Whaley | May 20, 2012 | Day-to-Day Operations, Medicare & Reimbursement, Medicare This Week
CMS to Start Accepting Suggestions for PQRS Measures and Measure Groups (jump to story) New Rules Finalized by Health and Human Services to Cut Regulations for Hospitals and Health Care Providers (jump to story) Denise Buenning from CMS Answers the Industry’s...
