CMS’ Chronic Care Management service is aimed at strengthening access to chronic care management services in primary care settings while reducing costs, and a report on the program prepared by Mathematica Policy Research for CMS indicates its doing just that.
Auditing of technical controls is increasingly important as both the level of use and technical sophistication of applications, hardware, and networking increase.
Electronic health records fall short of early promises that they would reduce administrative costs, a recent study found. The cost of completing insurance- and billing-related activities in the EHR can represent more than a quarter of professional reimbursement for an emergency department visit.
