Featured Report: Doctors' Medicare payment data finally set for release

Doctors' Medicare payment data finally set for release

Modern Healthcare Apr,02,2014 by:+Joe Carlson Despite 30 years of opposition from physicians, the public will soon learn how 880,000 doctors and other healthcare practitioners billed Medicare for the services they provided and what the government paid them. The data are expected to spotlight doctors with suspicious billing patterns. Covering $77 billion worth of Medicare Part B payments in 2012, the data will be released as soon as next Wednesday, according to an announcement from CMS Principal Deputy Administrator Jonathan Blum. The information will include physicians' provider IDs, their charges, their patient volumes and what Medicare actually paid. Read More

ONC's first app is a HIPAA security assessment tool for smaller practices

MobiHealthNews Apr,01,2014 by:+Brian Dolan The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the HHS Office of the General Counsel (OGC), c0-developed a free mobile app and web tool to help small- to medium-sized healthcare practices better assess security issues and risks associated with HIPAA. The app is available for download from Apple's App Store for iPad users and from the ONC's site for Windows OS laptop and desktop users. Read More

HIT Safety: Where the Feds Will Focus

HIT Safety: Where the Feds Will Focus

Health Data Management Apr,02,2014 by:+Joseph Goedert The federal government, in its new report on creating a risk-based regulatory framework for health information technology, focuses on the functionality of HIT products, not the platform whether it be cloud-based, installed or mobile. Read More

EHR Incentive Program Healthcare Professionals Did You Know? Non-hospital-based physicians and other eligible professionals can obtain incentive payments of as much as $44,000 under Medicare or $63,750 under Medicaid. Under both Medicare and Medicaid, eligible hospitals may receive millions of dollars for implementing and meaningfully using certified EHR technology. About two-thirds (65 percent) of hospitals and 32 percent of office-based physicians plan to enroll in meaningful use programs by the end of 2012 in order to receive the maximum incentives, according to survey results announced Thursday morning. Fewer federal dollars will be available to hospitals and doctors that wait to adopt EHR technology, and failure to meaningfully use EHRs starting in 2015 will result in Medicare penalties. Watch this video about how to register for the EHR Incentive program. EHR Incentive Program Registration Do you need help with HIPAA and HITECH? Then download and Read our HIPAA Guide for for Doctors and Small Clinics that contains HIPAA security regulations and check lists that you can use to start your EMR network.

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