Archives for June 2011

Meaningful Use for Medicare Incentive Payments

As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released instructions for providers to qualify for incentive payments for the adoption of electronic health record (EHR) technology.  Provisions are in place for eligible professionals  to receive up to $44,000 in Medicare incentive payments.  Medicaid […]

ICD-10: CMS Lays Down the Facts In Recent Provider Call-In

  For those of you who are like me, whose heads are spinning from all the other changes going on in physician practice management, one of the most challenging adaptations we will go through is now hovering on the horizon, and I’ve chosen to ignore it long enough.  I’m talking about the conversion from ICD-9 […]