The Society of General Internal Medicine convened the National Commission on Payment Reform to formulate a recommendation for healthcare payment reform. This Commission released its Report in March 2013. Although we have attached the report, here are the 12 fundamental recommendations.
1. Over time, payers should largely eliminate stand-alone fee-for-service payment to medical practices because of …
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The White House released two documents on February 12th related to critical infrastructure protection and cybersecurity: the Presidential Policy Directive #21 on Critical Infrastructure and Resilience (PPD-21) which replaces the Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD-7) which previously served as the policy basis for the national critical infrastructure protection…
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The final HIPAA Omnibus Rule has been published and addresses privacy, security, enforcement, and breach notification.
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All commercial website and online service providers need to comply with the requirements of the California Online Privacy Protection Act. California recently issued guidance on how mobile application developers and others can comply with those requirements at the design stage in its guide entitled, "Privacy On the Go…
n November, 2012, the American Medical Association adopted new guiding principles for physicians entering into employment and contractual arrangements. According to one AMA Board Member, “The Principles for Physician Employment provide a broad framework to help guide physicians and their employers as they collaborate to provide safe, high quality, and cost-effective patient care.”…
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The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 includes the Physician Update Fix, which essentially provides a 0% Medicare change for 2013. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is currently revising the 2013 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) to reflect the new law’s requirements as well as technical corrections identified since publication of the final…
The Pennsylvania Department of Health has issued its medical records fees for 2013. The announcement is attached; it provides as follows:
Not to Exceed
Amount charged per page for pages 1-20 $ 1.42
Amount charged per page for pages 21-60 $ 1.05
Amount charged per …
The OIG recently issued an interesting advisory opinion related to a hospital based hospice agency’s intent to establish a volunteer program to provide non-skilled services to terminally ill patients who do not qualify for hospice care. Read the full text of the OIG opinion here: https://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/docs/advisoryopinions/2012/AdvOpn12-17.pdf…
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The Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services has issued an advisory opinion regarding a hospital’s proposal to provide free acces to an electronic interface to community physicians and physician practices (who request it) so that the physicians and practices can transmit orders for…
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mHIMSS, the mobile initiative of HIMSS, has released the mHIMSS Roadmap to serve as guideance for professionals, organizations, corporations and health systems on the adoption of mobile and mobile health devices.
Lee Kim, chair of the mHIMSS Legal/Policy taskforce, authored several sections of the legal & policy section of the…
