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Maryland's troubled health insurance website improperly stored Social Security numbers and other patient information in a way that put enrollees at risk of identity theft, according to a legislative audit released Friday.
CMS has scaled back some objectives in stage 2 of the electronic health records (EHR) meaningful use program but plowed ahead with stage 3, according to a final rule released Oct. 6.
Get the latest news from the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference Feb. 23 through 27 in Orlando, Fla., by keeping up with the Part B News blog.
Practice staff will have a legal way to complete physician enrollment using the Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System (PECOS) as CMS is poised to roll out its long-awaited surrogate program for use by the end of August.
If you haven’t gotten going on the ICD-10 transition thing, you are far from alone – a high percentage of health care providers, including physicians and hospitals, haven’t gotten much further this year than they were in February 2012 and many aren’t sure when they’ll get around to conducting their ICD-10 impact assessments, says a new survey from the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI).

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