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What if CMS threw a meaningful use party and nobody showed up?
As the buzz at HIMSS this year indicated, ICD-10 is on the short list of things keeping hospital executives up at night. From 17,000 codes under ICD-9 to 155,000 under the new regulation, ICD-10 takes coding and reimbursement to a whole new level – and will exponentially impact the financial health of every hospital. Here is what every provider needs to know as they prepare for the transition:
Doug Celebi is Chief medical officer, payer and government solutions at OptumInsight. Formerly developed disease and care management programs for CIGNA
Blogging, tweeting, texting and facebooking have become routine for many physicians as well as many other healthcare professionals. In this issue, Associate Editor Molly Merrill talks to docs who connect with their patients, colleagues and the public via social media (Cover story and P. 23). She discovers, what she already knew, social platforms aren’t just for idle banter.
From an editorial in the Jan. 31, 2011, issue of The Boston Globe, this real-life scenario is all too typical. Providers make decisions absent easy access to a patient’s complete medical history as well as guidelines, best practices, checklists and scientific findings that support them in providing the best possible care to patients.
As the need for certified electronic health record specialists grows, it is important that healthcare organizations are able to recognize whether potential candidates are EHR-ready, says one consultant.
With six months and counting until the compliance deadline, participants lagging and blaming fingers pointing in every direction, the healthcare industry isn't ready for HIPAA 5010. And that doesn't bode well for ICD-10, either.
Despite the criticism waged against the proposed ACO rules, there's an appetite in healthcare to rethink the delivery system – but only if CMS eases the measures.
The administrative simplification could save providers, insurers billions of dollars by enabling them to automate these processes.
Qualifying for meaningful use incentives and choosing the right electronic health record system are among the top 5 challenges medical practice managers are facing today, according to new research from the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), which represents 21,500 members.