Susan HuntingtonA 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 &…
The Innovation Center at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced on December 15 that it was canceling its previously announced mandatory five-year…
OIG Expands Kickback Safe Harbors While Expanding Bases for CMP
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has finalized its newest safe harbor rule that had been…
Hospitals Report Predicts Hundreds of Billions in Losses if ACA Repealed
The American Hospital Association (AHA) and the Federation of American Hospitals (FAH) released a report on December 6, Estimating the Impact of Repealing the Affordable…
New NIST Security Standard Will Affect Health Care Industry
On November 16, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released Special Publication 800-160, which focuses on the engineering actions that need to be…