by Keith Kuhn | Apr 25, 2014 | Industry, Regulations, Reimbursement
Industry stakeholders support CMS’s plans to expand the PMD demo—with a few tweaks. “I’m all for it,” said Peggy Walker, billing specialist at VGM. “I’m ready for more prior auths.” In an April 4 emergency Federal Register notice, CMS detailed plans to expand the...
by Keith Kuhn | Apr 24, 2014 | Reimbursement
On April 9, 2014, the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General’s (OIG) Office of Evaluation and Inspections (OEI) issued a report (OEI-01-12-00390) entitled “Limited Compliance With Medicare’s Home Health Face to Face Documentation...
by Keith Kuhn | Apr 23, 2014 | Industry
Recent highly publicized security breaches at Target and Neiman Marcus made information security front-page news. Now the latest bug nicknamed “Heartbleed”—which impacts the very code (Open SSL) that keeps servers secure—is once again bringing into question how...
by Keith Kuhn | Apr 22, 2014 | Industry
President Barack Obama, recently, put his signature on the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014. In effect, one provision of the new law served to delay ICD-10 implementation until October 1, 2015 at the absolute earliest. Following two similar delays in the...
by Keith Kuhn | Apr 22, 2014 | Industry
Healthcare providers now routinely use mobile health applications in a variety of ways, helping to drive operational efficiencies and improvements in care. However, for all of the progress made in this area, there is still a long ways to go. To truly take advantage of...
