ICD-10 compliance is now less than a year away and a Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) survey showed that larger groups and facilities are being proactive while others seems to be taking their time (survey included over 500 responses from providers, vendors and health plans.) The delay in enacting ICD-10 negatively affected provider progress and WEDI Chairman Jim Daley stated that unless all stakeholders make a “dedicated effort”
By Lawrence G | October 17, 2014 | Electronic Medical Records News, Medical Billing Software |
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has debuted a public online database of hospital charges for the hundred most common inpatient procedures. The Obama administration’s efforts to bring transparency, accountability, and affordability to the healthcare industry under the Affordable Care Act have cast into sharp relief the large variances in medical billing charges from different hospitals,
By Lawrence G | May 10, 2013 | Healthcare Laws and Regulations, Medical Billing Software |
The Department of Health and Human Services recently named Lyfechannel’s myfamily app as the winner of its Healthfinder.gov Mobile App Challenge. The challenge, sponsored by HHS’ Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and managed with help from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and healthcare IT company Health 2.0, sought software developers to design and create a mobile app that makes preventative care information and content from healthfinder.gov easily accessible and customizable.
By Lawrence G | May 2, 2013 | Healthcare IT, Medical Billing Software |
Utah’s Department of Health has reported its second data breach within the past year. This incident involved the personal information of approximately 6,000 Medicaid patients.
On January 10th, an employee of third-party contractor Goold Health Systems (which processes Medicaid pharmacy transactions for the state agency) saved Protected Health Information (PHI) onto a portable USB flash drive which was not encrypted.
By Lawrence G | January 28, 2013 | Healthcare Laws and Regulations, Medical Billing Software |
The multi-agency Medicare Fraud Strike Force charged 91 people for allegedly participating in schemes amounting to almost $430 million in Medicare fraud. The second such major raid by the government in the past few months netted doctors, nurses, and other licensed medical professionals, some of whom were arrested while others surrendered themselves.
Federal,
By Lawrence G | October 5, 2012 | Electronic Medical Records News, Healthcare Laws and Regulations, Medical Billing Software |
San Francisco-based McKesson Corp. has announced plans to acquire MED3000, a developer of physician group management, billing, and revenue cycle tools based in Pittsburgh. This comes a week after McKesson announced that it had entered into an agreement to purchase MedVentive, a data analytics firm and provider of population and risk management tools for the healthcare industry.
By Lawrence G | October 2, 2012 | Electronic Medical Records News, Healthcare IT, Medical Billing Software |
The University of Miami Hospital (UMH) has disclosed that two employees were accessing patients’ personal information inappropriately and may have sold it to a third party. According to officials at the hospital, the two employees, who were terminated immediately upon discovery of their activities, were taking data from “face sheets” used during patient registration.
By Lawrence G | September 13, 2012 | Healthcare Laws and Regulations, Medical Billing Software |
A recent survey found that 96 percent of medical practices are concerned about the potential impact of the transition to ICD-10, now scheduled for October 1, 2014. At the same time, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS), as well as the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS),
By Lawrence G | September 10, 2012 | Electronic Medical Records News, Healthcare Laws and Regulations, Medical Billing Software |
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a one-year delay to the compliance date for the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10. The new code sets, used to classify diseases and health problems, will include approximately 155,000 codes for new diagnoses and procedures which are intended to aid in quality improvement and payment.
By Lawrence G | August 28, 2012 | Healthcare Laws and Regulations, Medical Billing Software |
The Department of Health and Human Services this week announced a new rule designed to cut red tape and save money. In conjunction with another regulation issued earlier this year, the rule is expected to save up to $9 billion over the next decade.
The operating rules for Electronic Funds Transfers (EFTs) and Electronic Remittance Advices (ERAs),
By Lawrence G | August 9, 2012 | Healthcare Laws and Regulations, Medical Billing Software |
