Q:How does the Supplemental Medical Review Contractor (SMRC) determine which reviews to perform? Does SMRC work for CMS or our Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC)? Read More »
CMS now plans to cancel two mandatory bundled payment programs, according to a new rule title posted to the Federal Register on August 10. The two rules, the Advancing Care Coordination through Episode Payment Models and the...Read More »
Join Cheryl Ericson, MS, RN, CCDS, CDIP, and Michelle Wieczorek, RN, RHIT, CPHQ, for a 90-minute webinar on how clinical documentation can ensure accurate capture of patients’ acuity and...Read More »
For the second year in a row, the Mayo Clinic tops the U.S. News & World Report’s “Honor Roll” of the best hospitals of 2017-2018, HealthLeaders Media reported.Read More »
Which types of clinicians will get “special status” from CMS for the Quality Payment Program (QPP) data submissions this year? CMS recently updated its website with a tool (available online) providers can use to check to see whether they are...Read More »
Researchers at NYU Langone found that many informal consultations between referrers and radiologists were captured incompletely or inadequately in the electronic health record (EHR), according to...Read More »
