Featured Report: Are docs really struggling to meet Meaningful Use?

Entrepreneurs Call for Federal Government To Share More Health Data

iHealthbeat June,06,2013 Staff Entrepreneurs are calling on the federal government to share more health care data, Kaiser Health News reports. Details of Recently Released Data The push for more data followed an announcement made earlier this week by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius that CMS has released outpatient procedure cost data (Whitney, Kaiser Health News, 6/6). Sebelius made the announcement during Health Datapalooza IV, an annual national conference on health data transparency. She said that CMS has released average bill charges for 30 hospital outpatient procedures. The data show significant differences in how much hospitals charge patients for the same service. Read Report

Houston-area doctors to pay $37M in health care billing case

Houston Business Journal June,06,2013 by:Bayan Raji Two Houston-area physicians have been ordered to pay $37 million in restitution in connection with their conviction of defrauding Medicare, Medicaid and over a dozen private insurers. Arun and Kiran Sharma, a husband and wife who operated pain management clinics in Baytown and Webster, pleaded guilty in 2010 to conspiracy to commit health care fraud and mail fraud as well as one count of health care fraud for billing health care providers for injection procedures they did not perform. They have been in custody since their 2010 guilty pleas Read More

Featured Report:Are docs really struggling to meet Meaningful Use?

Are docs really struggling to meet Meaningful Use?

Fierce EMR June,06,2013 by:Dan Bowman, Physicians have had difficulty meeting Meaningful Use criteria for electronic health records, according to research published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The research, based on a survey of 1,820 primary care physicians and office-based specialists conducted between late 2011 and early 2012, determined that less than 10 percent of physicians had met Meaningful Use criteria as of early 2012. Read More

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EHR Incentive Program Healthcare Professionals Did You Know? Non-hospital-based physicians and other eligible professionals can obtain incentive payments of as much as $44,000 under Medicare or $63,750 under Medicaid. Under both Medicare and Medicaid, eligible hospitals may receive millions of dollars for implementing and meaningfully using certified EHR technology. About two-thirds (65 percent) of hospitals and 32 percent of office-based physicians plan to enroll in meaningful use programs by the end of 2012 in order to receive the maximum incentives, according to survey results announced Thursday morning. Fewer federal dollars will be available to hospitals and doctors that wait to adopt EHR technology, and failure to meaningfully use EHRs starting in 2015 will result in Medicare penalties. Watch this video about how to register for the EHR Incentive program. EHR Incentive Program Registration Do you need help with HIPAA and HITECH? Then download and Read our HIPAA Guide for for Doctors and Small Clinics that contains HIPAA security regulations and check lists that you can use to start your EMR network.

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