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07/17/2017

As a new computer hack hits health care facilities, experts advise you to tighten up security – not just in expected ways, but also in areas such as password and permission management.

07/17/2017

Set automatic alerts in your electronic health record (EHR) and strike the right tone with your patients to encourage higher immunization rates and cut back on costly complications — and ace a merit-based incentive payment system (MIPS) quality measure, too.

07/17/2017

The House passed a bill June 28 that, if signed into law, would restrict damages on malpractice judgments and even make such suits harder to bring.

07/17/2017
Under the proposed Quality Payment Program (QPP) rule, providers who report one or more quality measures via electronic health record (EHR) will need to report six measures to receive full credit for the quality category.
07/17/2017
Question: A doctor's note on a patient taking treatment for a shingles outbreak reads, "I did not recommend I&D [incision and drainage], but the patient's wife insisted." Is the provider admitting a lack of medical necessity, rendering the procedure unbillable to insurance (Medicare or other)?
07/17/2017
The last MAC to do so requires multi-factor authentication for portal access, and Alaska gains HHS approval for an Affordable Care Act (ACA) waiver.
07/17/2017

Denial rates on key vaccine codes from 2013 to 2015, which are the most recent years for Medicare data, have been remarkably consistent and suggest that billing problems with some codes are due to long-known issues. The data also suggest many practices just haven’t caught on yet.

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