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Looking for a QCDR to report MIPS? Start here

by: Richard Scott May 31, 2017

The path to successful quality-reporting in 2017 continues to get clearer. In a new release, you'll find dozens of qualified clinical data registries (QCDRs) that have obtained CMS' blessing to help you report your quality measures and other pieces of the merit-based incentive payment system (MIPS).

Doctor-owned practices now a minority: AMA

by: Roy Edroso May 31, 2017

The American Medical Association (AMA) has run the numbers and found that, for the first time since people can remember, fewer than half of working physicians own their own practices.

Neurosurgeon wins concurrency case against Syracuse hospital

by: Laura Evans, CPC May 30, 2017

A neurosurgeon who claims he was pressured to resign from a Syracuse, N.Y., hospital after raising concerns about double-booking operating rooms there has been awarded more than $88,200 in lost wages by a New York Supreme Court Justice, according to a report in Outpatient Surgery Magazine.

Doctor learns $300,000 lesson about billing drugs to Medicare

by: Laura Evans, CPC May 25, 2017

Normally the old adage, “waste not, want not,” would be a reliable rule of thumb to live by. But when you’re trying to stay compliant with Medicare billing rules for drugs and supplies, wasting leftover medications is often the better idea -- as federal prosecutors recently showed a corner-cutting neurologist.

How to lose $387,200 in a fax

by: Julia Kyles, CPC May 24, 2017

Two incidents at a health center operated by New York-based St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center show that sending a fax can turn an act that should have cost the organization a few cents into a settlement that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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