HHS Announces Another HIPAA Fine Based on Stolen Laptop
Susan HuntingtonOn April 24, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that its Office for Civil Rights (OCR) reached a settlement with CardioNet,…
2018 Medicare Part C and D Rate Updates Released; CMS Solicits Additional Feedback by April 24
On April 3, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its 2018 Medicare Advantage and Part D rate policies. In its press release,…
A new study by researchers at Brigham and Womens Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, found that the rate of paid medical malpractice claims…
CMS Extends PQRS Reporting Deadline
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it has extended the March 13 submission deadline for 2016 Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA)…
A new mandate under the Federal Notice of Observation Treatment and Implication for Care Eligibility Act (NOTICE Act), passed on August 6, 2015, went into effect…
CMS Reminds Providers That Failure to Report Ownership Changes Can Stop Medicare Payments
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On February 23, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a reminder to physicians and other individually licensed healthcare professionals that existing regulations…
A new survey report released by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) entitled Examining the Copy and Paste Function in the Use of Electronic…
CMS Announces Provider Participants in Alternative Payment Models for 2017
On January 18, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that over 359,000 clinicians are confirmed to participate in one of CMSs four…
Good News For Physicians: CMS Defers Penalty Due to ICD-10 Glitch
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a statement on January 9 that the ICD-10 updates that went into use on October 1,…
The Joint Commission and CMS Again Prohibit Text Orders
In a clarification issued in the December 2016 issues of its official newsletter, Perspectives, The Joint Commission, in collaboration with the Centers for Medicare &…