Featured Report: Employers Aren't 'Paying and Dumping' Employees Into Exchanges as Expected

Employers Aren't 'Paying and Dumping' Employees Into Exchanges as Expected

Healthcare Insurance Exchange Oct,07,2013 by:+Thom Mangan Much uncertainty has surrounded the Affordable Care Act since its inception. Delays, changes and fluidity in general have ruled the day concerning health care reform, and even one point of the ACA that was widely assumed a foregone conclusion has revealed itself to be unpredictable: the usage of exchanges Read More

IRS Official: ACA Rollout Going Well, Consumer Data Safe

iHealthBeat Oct,10,2013 by:+Staff During a House committee hearing Wednesday, Sarah Hall Ingram -- director of the Internal Revenue Service's Affordable Care Act Office -- assured lawmakers that IRS' implementation of the ACA has been smooth and that it is not experiencing problems like those with the federal exchange website, The Hill's "Healthwatch" reports (Baker [1], "Healthwatch," The Hill, 10/9). Read More

Physicians keeping close watch on online reviews

Modern Healthcare.com Oct,10,2013 by:+Ashok Selvam Online reviews posted by customers have cast physicians under the same criticisms normally reserved for restaurants, and it turns out a majority of doctors pay close attention to those appraisals. About 85% of physicians proactively monitor online reviews about themselves, according to a survey conducted by ZocDoc, the online physician appointment hub. ZocDoc received answers in July from 360 physicians. When it came to assessing the bias of those reviews, 62% said online customer reviews were fair, 23% said they've very fair, while 15% said they're unfair. 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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