Category: Regulations

In the introduction to this blog series, we talked about the sacking of traditional fee-for-service payments and the rapid push to value-based models that reward quality and cost-effectiveness over the quantity of services provided. For this article, imagine you are

The transition to ICD-10 has felt like watching a movie in slo-mo. Although it’s been more than a quarter of a century (1990 to be exact) since the World Health Organization endorsed the revised classification system, the U.S. moved at

History will doubtless record the collapse of healthcare’s traditional fee-for-service model. While the ransacking of fee-for-service has taken longer than Visigoth King Alaric’s three-day siege and sack of Rome in 410 AD, both the medical community and the Romans should

The CMS has unveiled a new reporting structure and changes to Meaningful Use.

Madelyn Young contributed to this post For a long time in medicine, a ‘bundle’ referred to a bunch of parallel fibers in the body, like a muscle bundle or vascular bundle. Now that we’re moving toward value-based care, however, a

Complying with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) can be unnerving for medical groups and providers, especially when failure to comply can lead to fines from $100 all the way up to $50,000 or more per violation. Private

It’s October 2015 – the long awaited time when everyone in healthcare switches to the ICD-10 code system. Hopefully your workflow and revenue continue full steam ahead without any serious dips or disruptions. On the lighter side, we’re sharing our

  Update October 7, 2015: AMA prevails again, with CMS making attestation for Stage 3 Meaningful Use optional in 2017. As it stands now, CMS expects some eligible physicians in their EHR incentive program to meet Meaningful Use Stage 3

Power Your Practice continues to focus on the state of individual medical specialties and the functionality each requires from their health IT. In this updated post, we take a closer look at cardiology with its distinct set of challenges and

Each medical specialty faces a distinctive set of challenges and, as a result, demands different software functionality. In this updated installment of our specialty snapshot series, we look at the field of pulmonology and identify the kind of software functionality

When All Roads Lead to MACRA Let Data Guide the Way to Success

When All Roads Lead to MACRA Let Data Guide the Way to Success