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EHR Incentive Payments Top $6.5 Billion

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EHR Incentive Payments top $6.5 Billion
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In the latest report from CMS, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, EHR Medicare and Medicaid stimulus payments through July 2012 came to $6,597,220,181. Medicare EPs – $1,133,723,850.00 Medicaid EPs – $1,059,530,215.00 Eligible Hospitals – $4,214,529,630.00 (Medicare and Medicaid combined) Medicare Advantage Organizations for EPs – $189,436,486.00 Those are payments to over 188,000 Medical Professionals and 3,624 hospitals. It Continue reading EHR Incentive Payments Top $6.5 Billion→

CMS/RAC Begin Audits of Medicare Physicians’ Use of CPT Codes

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The Audits are coming and they could cost you BIG! CMS, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has just approved audits of Physician’s offices in Medicare Region C. Connolly Inc., the Medicare Region C Recovery Auditor, will begin auditing Medicare Physicians in 15 states as well as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands through “complex review”, which entails human Continue reading CMS/RAC Begin Audits of Medicare Physicians’ Use of CPT Codes→

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Stage 2 Meaningful Use Core set and Menu set Requirements

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Stage 2 Meaningful Use The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services final requirements for “Stage 2 Meaningful Use” that hospitals and health care providers must meet in order to qualify for Government incentives consist of 20 objectives; there are 17 Core Objectives and 3 of 6 Menu Objectives. Here are links to summary lists of those objectives. Core Set Objectives – Continue reading Stage 2 Meaningful Use Core set and Menu set Requirements→

All EHRs are EMRs but not all EMRs are EHRs

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OK, so what’s the difference? I’m glad you asked. Typically an EMR is a medical record stored in any type of electronic format, PDFs being the most common. But an EHR is an EMR whose information is quantifiable. In other words, you can use pieces of the EHR for calculating percentages of records with a certain diagnosis or the number of patients Continue reading All EHRs are EMRs but not all EMRs are EHRs→