The Mayo Clinic Health System recently began a $1.5 billion electronic health record (EHR) rollout which will affect all 70 of the system’s facilities and 51,000 employees across the country, according to...Read More »
More than 585,000 eligible clinicians could be excluded from the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) requirements due to proposed changes to the program’s low-volume threshold, ...Read More »
Appeals cost providers roughly $118 per claim—extrapolated nationwide that amounts to as much as $8.6 billion in administrative costs necessary to recover initially denied claims, according to a new report from Change Healthcare,...Read More »
CMS released a change request May 30 describing changes which will be implemented in the July 2017 quarterly update to the outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS...Read More »
Take a close look at the documentation guidelines that CMS suggests for the practice improvement portion of the merit-based incentive payment system (MIPS) and you may ward off future audits and avoid forfeiting revenue, according to the...Read More »
Q:Should CDI take the criteria from the National Quality Forum (NQF), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) into consideration when querying for CAUTI,...Read More »
CMS recently released its Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Reports (PEPPER) with statistics from the first quarter of fiscal year 2017 for short-term acute care hospitals nationwide.Read More »
