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The Medical Billing & Coding blog has a recent entry on the role of social media in healthcare. The title of the post is 50 Amazing Ways Hospitals Are Using Facebook and Twitter. The blog entry provides a broad perspective on how hospitals are using social media outlets…
CMS issued the proposed 2013 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule on July 30, 2012. The complete document package of approximately 700 pages is available on both the CMS website and at www.medlawblog.com. For this article, I will not summarize all 700 pages, but I would like to hit three of the most significant issues:
1. 27%…
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Please join the Western Pennsylvania Chapter of Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), and guests for our annual Summer Healthcare & Technology Round Table on Thursday, September 20 at the DoubleTree in Monroeville, PA. See address and directions below.
The Summer Round Table includes a…
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Lori Swanson, the Minnesota Attorney General, announced that Accretive Health, Inc., the Chicago debt collector that managed the revenue operations of several Minnesota hospitals, will cease operations in Minnesota as a result of a settlement agreement. In addition, Accretive cannot reenter Minnesota for a period of six (6) years…
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Highlights of meaningful use stage 2 include the following:
1. Eligible hospitals, critical access hospitals, and eligible professionals may demonstrate meaningful use stage 2 as early as 2014. Most of the stage 1 meaningful use stage 1 menu objectives are now stage 2 core objectives.
2. Eligible professionals must…
I thought you might be interested in linking to or writing about a recent blog post by Christine Zambricki, a top official with the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists. The post originally appeared in ADVANCE for Nurses
Protecting Access to CRNAs Relieves Patient Pain
By Christine Zambricki, CRNA, MA, FAAN
In less than two weeks…
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In a press release today, the Pennsylvania eHealth Collaborative has announced that it has awarded grants to four organizations for regional and statewide health information exchanges. The four recipients were each awarded $1.5 million. These recipients were Highmark HIE, LLC, Lehigh Valley Hospital, Inc., St. Luke’s Hospital, and HealthShare…
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The final rule for meaningful use stage 2 for the electronic health record (EHR) incentive programs has been released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). It may be accessed here: http://www.ofr.gov/OFRUpload/OFRData/2012-21050_PI.pdf. Eligible professionals, eligible hospitals, and critical access hospitals must meet new criteria in…
