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What was speculation is now official: CMS will accept hardship exceptions for the meaningful use reporting program because of the delayed rulemaking that the federal agency issued for the program's modified stage 2 and stage 3.
Now that many practices use sensitive ICD-10-CM coding software that allows clinicians to use drop-down menus to assign specific diagnosis codes, some doctors are asking whether they still need to provide a descriptive diagnostic statement in the patient’s record in addition to the ICD-10 code.
 
 
You have an additional 15 days to let CMS know how you feel about the direction of Medicare-related quality-reporting programs, such as the physician quality reporting system (PQRS) and electronic health record (EHR) reporting.

The 950,000 individual health records in its care may only be mislaid, but this health care company didn't wait to launch its breach program.

Proving that there's always room for more confusion where drug screen billing and coding is concerned, Medicare today announced that it is putting a hold on drug screen claims (G0477-G0483).

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