Instead of paying for hospital and physician services separately, the ACE demonstration program bundles payments for specific cardiac and orthopedic procedures into one lump sum to encourage collaboration.
CMS has once again contracted with the TMF Health Quality Institute to release Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Reports (PEPPER) data in 2010.
You receive a letter in the mail requesting copies of medical records for an audit. It looks much like the one you received the day before, but the return address is different. And they both look quite similar to the other request for documentation you received last week.
Just getting started with your transition to an EHR? Consider these five tips from experts in the field as well as some of the providers who’ve been in your shoes.
On August 19, 2009, HHS released its interim final rule on breach notification of unsecure protected health information (PHI) and the acceptable methods for covered entities (CE) and business associates (BA) to encrypt and destroy patient records to prevent breaches.