By Amanda Patanow on
7/21/2009
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology health IT policy committee voted Thursday on long-awaited recommendations from its workgroups on how providers can qualify to receive incentives through the new stimulus package.
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By Amanda Patanow on
7/14/2009
The RAC pilot identified $992.7 million in overpayments through 2008. The pilot is now over and CMS considers it a smashing success. Auditors will be arriving in force in your neighborhood by year’s end if they’re not there already.
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By Amanda Patanow on
7/14/2009
About 45,000 physicians nationwide will be eligible to receive up to $63,750 each in Medicaid incentive payments over the next six years to adopt electronic health records, according to a study released Wednesday by the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services.
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By Amanda Patanow on
7/7/2009
In a recent interview with Information Week, National Coordinator for Health IT David Blumenthal spoke about health IT's potential to help facilitate the overhaul of the U.S. health care system and boost regional health data exchanges.
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By Amanda Patanow on
7/7/2009
On Wednesday, CMS issued a draft Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for 2010, which includes several revised health IT provisions, Health Data Management reports.
The CMS proposal would...
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By Amanda Patanow on
6/29/2009
Increases in physicians' overall compensation in both primary and specialty care did not keep up with inflation in 2008, according to the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) Physician Compensation and Production Survey: 2009 Report Based on 2008 Data.
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