When All Roads Lead to MACRA Let Data Guide the Way to Success
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 staring down at a foreboding uncharted road that is your only possible path. So what […]
The Fall from (ICD-10) Grace
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 a glacial pace in adopting it. After an initial implementation date of October 1, 2011, […]
Glance Back to Move Forward and Get Ahead with MACRA Changes Afoot
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 have seen it coming. After all, when Alaric breached the city gate it was his […]
CMS Unveils New EHR Standards and updated MACRA Incentive Information
The CMS has unveiled a new reporting structure and changes to Meaningful Use.
Don’t Get Tripped Up by Bundled Codes
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 much more common term is emerging: “bundled codes” To set up the right incentives for […]
12 Best Practices to Keep Your Staff HIPAA Compliant
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 practices need the most corrective actions, according to HHS’ Office of Civil Rights (OCR), which […]
The Most Bizarre ICD-10 Codes
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 “Most Bizarre ICD-10 Code Awards.” Although ICD-10 is clearly serious business, among the nearly 70,000 […]
AMA Calls for Postponing Meaningful Use Stage 3 — What It Could Mean for You
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 criteria starting in 2017. The AMA and other medical groups, however, last week asked CMS […]
What Cardiologists Need from their Health IT Software in 2015
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 requirements.
What Pulmonologists Need from Their Health IT Software in 2015
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 pulmonologists need to prosper.