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In the regulatory update of the June 5, 2017, issue, Part B News talked to a legal expert about the medical liability reforms proposed in the Trump HHS budget. To follow are some more of his thoughts on those reforms.
Providers who use eClinicalWorks and thought something was a bit off about the electronic health record's (EHR's) performance may feel vindicated by this news: The EHR vendor will pay $155 million and enter a corporate integrity agreement to settle a number of allegations, including that for several years it had lied about the platform’s capabilities so it could receive meaningful use certification.
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).

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.

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.

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