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EHR Internal Messaging, Secure Messaging and Stage 2 Meaningful Use

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“I never got that message.” Internal messaging systems in an EHR may not seem that important to the smaller practice but if you have ever been stuck trying to figure out if someone was told to do something or not, or when they were told, an electronic “paper trail” is priceless. Internal messaging, with its electronic paper trail, is a Continue reading EHR Internal Messaging, Secure Messaging and Stage 2 Meaningful Use→

CMS / EHR Stimulus Audits Are Here!!

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We sent the stimulus money, now let’s see if we can get it back… Practitioners who have successfully attested for EHR Meaningful Use and received their stimulus money are to be applauded….. and now audited. Figliozzi & Company, a certified public accounting firm in Garden City, NJ was contracted by CMS, the Center for Medicare/Medicaid Services to conduct Medicare EHR Continue reading CMS / EHR Stimulus Audits Are Here!!→

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EHR Incentive Payments Top $6.5 Billion

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EHR Incentive Payments top $6.5 Billion

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→