Vitals (Vol 7 Issue 1): Transparency Disclosure INCENTIVES ARE BEING PAID

CMS announced on May 18th that the first incentive payments were being sent. It has been a long wait and lots of work but the Transparency Disclosure incentive period has started and the monies are being paid. Note – Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs), carriers, and fiscal intermediaries will not be making these payments. CMS is working with a Payment File Development Contractor to make these payments. Please do not contact your MAC regarding EHR incentive payments.

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Vitals (Vol 6 Issue 1): Training and Attention to Detail Key

New EMR and billing system implementations are among the greatest challenges a provider and medical staff may face today; you have spent years doing the same thing, the same way and now you do it pretty well.

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Vitals (Vol 5 Issue 1): Change Starts Today

Your medical practice is a business. It provides a service to consumers and income for employees. It supports the economy at every level whether sponsorship of a Little League Team or lunch purchased at the local deli to the taxes paid at the local, state and federal levels.

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Vitals (Vol 4 Issue 1): Be Organized and Remember – If You Don’t Ask, You Don’t Get

If your practice is like the majority of medical practices in the United States, you accept third party insurance, and the provider contract rates are the single largest factor affecting your total practice revenue…

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Vitals (Vol 3 Issue 1): What’s In It For Me?

Starting in 2011, providers deemed to be “meaningful users” of EHR systems will be eligible to receive $40,000 – $60,000 in incentive payments paid out over five years in the form of increased Medicare and Medicaid premiums…

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Vitals (Vol 2 Issue 1): Start Planning In 2010 for 2011 Incentives

The Recovery Act establishes financial incentives beginning in January 2011 for eligible professionals (EPs) who are meaningful EHR users. Beginning in 2015, payment adjustments will be imposed on EPs who are not meaningful EHR users…

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Vitals (Vol 1 Issue 1): The Importance of a Business Continuity Plan

What happens when your business is affected by disaster – a fire, flood, tornado, hurricane or earthquake? How do you recover operations and get back to business? Imagine the impact one of these events would have on your practice, staff and your patients.

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