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Proposed rule rolls out 6 potential Part B drug pay models

by: Julia Kyles, CPC Mar 8, 2016

By the end of the year, your practice or outpatient department could be taking part in a test of a new Part B drug payment model.

Andy Slavitt offers sympathy, no details on future EHR requirements

by: Roy Edroso Mar 3, 2016

I feel you, CMS Acting Adminsitrator Andy Slavitt basically told providers who struggle with CMS' meaningful use requirements on March 2. But his sympathetic comments at the annual HIMSS meeting did not come with details as to how he would make things easier or more effective.

ONC proposed rule would allow 'direct review' of HIT 'non-conformities,' direct lab oversight and public surveillance review

by: Roy Edroso Mar 1, 2016

Your EHR vendors may have to make sudden changes -- or even lose their certification -- if the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT (ONC) finalizes its new proposed rule, which gives ONC a more active "direct review" of electronic health record (EHR) products and relationships, more control over lab testing of products for certification and power to post quarterly "surveillance results" for the public.

Proposed 2012 fee schedule less than half the size of 2011's

by: Grant Huang Jul 6, 2011

We're deep into the pages of the proposed 2012 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and still haven't seen light at the end of the tunnel, but one thing is clear already: weighing in at 621 pages, this is one slim tome compared to the 2011 proposed fee schedule. The 2011 edition was 1,250 pages, which means this year's version is less than half the length, or 49.6% if you want to be precise. TIP: Read our initial fee schedule findings here, if you haven't already. The biggest reason for the big difference in size has to be the health reform law, which required CMS to start turning legislation into actual rulemaking.

CMS: Expect 2012 fee schedule proposed rule very soon

by: Grant Huang Jun 28, 2011

CMS is putting the finishing touches on its proposed 2012 Physician Fee Schedule and expects to release it "very shortly," in the words of Stewart Streimer, director of the agency's Provider Billing Group. This vague hint was one of the first announcements Streimer made during today's physician open door call.

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