Featured Report: CMS Adds Several Features to Physician Compare Website

ONC to Congress: HIEs are Progressing

Health Data Management June,27,2013 Joseph Goedert In its new annual report to Congress on the status of health information technology adoption across the nation, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology provides an update on the reach of statewide health information exchanges funded under the economic stimulus law. Thirty-nine states and territories had operational statewide health information exchanges offering broadly available directed exchange services--the secure sharing of information between two trusted parties--in December 2012, ONC reports. Directed exchange services were available in certain regions in four states, in pilot stage in five others and not available in eight. Twenty-five states and territories, either through the statewide HIE or other services, broadly offer query exchange to electronically ask for and receive information when the holder of the information is not known. Query exchange is available in some regions in 11 states and not available in 20. Read Report

CMS Adds Several Features to Physician Compare Website

iHealthBeat June,27,2013 by:Staff On Thursday, CMS added several new features to its Physician Compare website, but provider groups still have concerns about the accuracy and effectiveness of the tool, Modern Physician reports (Robeznieks, Modern Physician, 6/27). Background In December 2010, CMS launched the Physician Compare site to provide consumers with data such as a physician's name, address and Medicare participation status. In July 2012, CMS released a proposed rule outlining the next phase for its Physician Compare website, which involved posting performance data from: Read More

Brokers accepting navigators as reality

Brokers accepting navigators as reality

Healthcare Information Exchange June,26,2013 by:Gillian Roberts Kelly Fristoe is an independent agent in Wichita Falls, Texas. The outgoing president of the Texas Association of Health Underwriters has been engrained in his community selling insurance for nearly 23 years and knows the heart of his Texas towns. He can’t imagine a navigator being placed anywhere near his business area - a more rural part of Texas. “We have $8 million for navigators in Texas ... I don’t expect that there will be a navigator in communities that’s less than 50,000,” he said during an interview at the National Association of Health Underwriters meeting in Atlanta this week. Read More

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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