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Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced measurable goals and a timeline to move the Medicare program towards paring providers based on the quality of care they give patients, instead of the... Continue Reading

Understandably, the first of the year presents its fair share of challenges for health care professionals and organizations. For many of us, especially during the first of the year, it is easier to keep tabs on our... Continue Reading

Last Friday, it was announced that Marilyn Tavenner, the administrator of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will be stepping down in February. In her role as CMS administrator, she oversaw government... Continue Reading

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced yet another delay for ICD-10. This time, the delay will benefit providers. CMS has pushed out the ICD-10 testing deadline to January 21, 2015. CMS will use... Continue Reading

Will the Personal Data Notification and Protection Act impact current breach notification requirements? President Obama is calling for a national standard for data breach notification. The proposed standard will... Continue Reading

A Two-Part Series on Attestation Requirements and Training. In addition to Meaningful Use Attestation requirements, many insurance companies are asking for Annual Compliance Attestation for organizations to validate... Continue Reading

Last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued the Federal IT Strategic Plan 2015-2020. The Strategic Plan is currently... Continue Reading

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the bidding timeline for Round 2 Recompete and the national mail-order recompete of the Medicare Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics and... Continue Reading

Recently a question was asked about providing a patient medical record in electronic format: If you store patient information in your systems electronically, should a copy of the medical record be provided to the... Continue Reading

After last week's post regarding the Credentialed Medical Assistant requirement under Meaningful Use, we were asked the following question: If we are not attesting to Stage 2 until next year, when should... Continue Reading