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9 tips for new ways to connect with your payers for better results
09/02/2013
by: Scott Kraft
Step outside the usual claims-driven back-and-forth with your payers and “manage up” to them to let them know when and how they can provide your practice with better responses and more consistent service, experts tell Part B News.
 
CMS: Health exchanges can help meet meaningful use when certified
09/02/2013
by: Scott Kraft
Transmitting data via the Affordable Care Act’s health information exchanges (HIEs) can help you meet meaningful use requirements for your electronic health record (EHR) system, CMS clarifies in a set of recently released frequently asked questions (FAQs) about the EHR incentive program. One catch: The HIE must be certified by CMS.
Lack of vendor readiness prompts requests to delay meaningful use stage 2
09/02/2013
by: Jennifer Clampet

Vendors failing to attain timely certification on stage 2 meaningful use for electronic health records (EHR) systems has spurred provider organizations to ask for reporting delays and penalty moratoriums for eligible physicians.

Benchmark: Check private payer payments to ensure proper fee schedule reimbursement
09/02/2013
by: Karen Long

Your practice staff isn’t done when they’ve verified a patient’s insurance eligibility. They have to keep track of the reimbursement to make sure it matches what a payer’s fee schedule says it should pay.

Advocate for physician-led ACOs shares secret of success
09/01/2013
by: Joe Cantlupe

The former president of Advocate Physician Partners says it's a slow process to get newly hired physicians smoothly cobbled into an accountable care organization. But "culture is the main determinant" of an ACO's success.

Compensation increasingly based on quality of care
09/01/2013
by: John Commins

Primary care physicians have 3% of their total compensation based on quality measures, but doctors will increasingly be tied to these metrics as reimbursement aligns more closely with quality and cost measures, Medical Group Management Association data suggests.

Physicians help rebrand a Medicare Advantage plan
09/01/2013
by: Jacqueline Fellows

By working closely with its network physicians who are on the frontlines of demystifying health information for seniors, health insurer Cigna is doing things that could reap the company long-term marketing benefits.

Patients shoulder nearly 25% of medical bills
09/01/2013
by: John Commins

Data from the American Medical Association details the costs of medical billing complexity on patients and physicians, who are put "in the awkward situation of having to ask patients for money," says an AMA board member.

Q&A: Ardis Dee Hoven, new AMA president, outlines road map
09/01/2013
by: Joe Cantlupe

From reimbursement challenges to figuring out what makes some physician practices great, the American Medical Association's new president, Ardis Dee Hoven, MD, vows "significant change" for doctors in the year ahead.

Malnutrition, long neglected, needs doctors' attention
09/01/2013
by: Joe Cantlupe

The obesity epidemic in this country is rightly of deep concern to physicians and hospitals, but it obscures another deep-seated, but often less talked about problem: malnutrition.

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