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Meaningful Use Stage 1 attestation struggles represent big problems for CMS
There is a growing realization that providers are still struggling to meet Stage 1 requirements for the Meaningful Use incentive program--and officials with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
MGMA calls for more granular health plan identifiers
The Medical Group Management Association has raised questions about the way the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is approaching its implementation of health plan identification numbers.
MGMA wants 'staggered' ICD-10 implementation
In a letter sent this week to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Acting Administrator Marilyn Tavenner, Medical Group Management Association President Susan Turney reiterates the organization's position from March that the ICD-10 process, as currently outlined, lacks several steps.
Berwick: Meaningful Use still in its adolescence
The use of analytics in healthcare has potential, former Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Donald Berwick, M.D. told HealthLeaders Media in a recent interview. According to Berwick, CMS trials with analytics adoption at Oak Ridge (Tenn.) National Laboratory showed success with regard to the use of predictive analytics for fraud prevention.
HHS proposes pay raise for Medicaid primary care
Primary care physicians who treat Medicaid patients may get a pay raise totaling $11 billion over two years under a proposed rule announced last week by the Department of Health & Human Services.
Uncertainty aside, IT efforts for insurance exchanges continue
Despite the uncertainty that swirls around how the Supreme Court will rule on the Affordable Care Act, healthcare industry stakeholders are continuing efforts to comply with the law. For instance,
Sorting through MU provider comments will be no easy task for CMS
I sure don't envy the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services this week (or over the next few weeks, for that matter). The comments on the proposed rules implementing Stage 2 of Meaningful Use
Health IT groups want more alignment in MU Stage 2
The rule implementing Stage 2 of Meaningful Use needs to be more consistent with other reporting and quality requirements, according to several major stakeholders in the health IT provider industry.
CMS delays Sunshine Act data collection
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is delaying a key part of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act (proposed in Dec. 2011), in which the agency won't start collecting data until 2013, CMS
GAO: CMS verification of providers in incentive program lacking
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has implemented some procedures to verify whether providers have met the eligibility and reporting requirements of the electronic health record
