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Maryland hospitals' care judged by state analytical tool
Starting next month, Maryland hospitals will lose part of their reimbursement if they can't reduce the incidence of 52 potentially preventable conditions. While the concept is far from unique these... Read more...
CMS takes first shot at defining 'meaningful use'
The long wait is finally over--well, sort of. On Tuesday, a first draft of the standard definition for "meaningful use"--a definition that will help determine whether or not providers will receive... Read more...
Health IT stimulus includes Medicare EMR incentives
The stimulus spending plan promoted by President Obama has passed, including a healthy $20 billion in IT spending that will largely be funneled through CMS to provide incentives for EMR adoption. The... Read more...
Florida wants MDs to have web access to Medicaid patients' EHRs
Officials in Florida are looking to expand the number of electronic health records for Medicaid patients viewable by state doctors to 2.3 million for this coming year. Currently, doctors can only see... Read more...
MDs get 5.1 percent bump for Medicare for e-prescribing
Over the next several months, CMS is phasing in some new incentives for provider IT use which, taken collectively, could potentially result in a nice little boost to their income. After much... Read more...
HHS blasts CMS's HIPAA enforcement program
A new report from the HHS Inspector General's has ripped into CMS for doing a bad job of enforcing the HIPAA security rule. In its own investigation, the IG found that when it conducted its own... Read more...
Study: CMS code changes will increase costs
CMS' proposed upgrades to the current International Classification of Disease codes, or ICD-9, will be more expensive to implement than expected, according to a study commissioned by Nachimson... Read more...
CMS offers e-prescribing guide
This week, CMS issued its own guide to e-prescribing, including one section addressed to office-based clinicians new to e-prescribing and the other helping office-based clinicians who already... Read more...
Practices getting CMS bonus relied on IT
As FierceHealthcare readers know, Medicare recently gave out $16.7 million in bonuses to 10 large group practices that had met its quality improvement goals. The groups involved in the Physician... Read more...
Feds outline Medicare incentives for e-prescribing
Now that the Medicare bill has passed, a new set of e-prescribing incentives will soon be rolling out as well. This week, HHS leaders spelled out just how the incentives would work. The incentives... Read more...
