Saturday, July 26, 2014

Medicare Program; Evaluation Criteria and Standards for Beneficiary and Family Centered Care Quality Improvement Organization Contract

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A Notice by  the  Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services  on  07/28/2014 This notice with comment period describes the general crit...
Friday, July 25, 2014

RI Medicare Non-Profit Receives $53.4 Million Federal Contract

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Healthcentric Advisors , Medicare Rhode Island's Quality Improvement Organization, has been awarded a 5-year, $53.4 million federal con...

Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Quarterly Listing of Program Issuances - April Through June 2014

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This quarterly notice lists CMS manual instructions, substantive and interpretive regulations, and other  Federal Register  notices that we...

Patient satisfaction survey to be rolled out across the entire NHS

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A TEST ranking patient satisfaction with the care they have received is to be introduced at all NHS services in Worcestershire and acr...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

Great Opportunity for Inpatient Coders (CCA, CCS, RHIT) Central Florida

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Description: The Medical Records Coder II assigns diagnosis and procedural codes using ICD-9-CM and CPT-4 coding systems and monitors bill ...

Physical therapy mHealth app logs compliance

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For Jonathan Ware, M.D., the best mHealth app is the one in his pocket. The medical director of population health management at Florida...
Saturday, July 19, 2014

mHealth can be used to capture meaningful use bonuses

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July 18, 2014  |  Andrey Ostrovsky, MD Hospitals can capture nearly $50,000 for every doctor they employ through the  meaning...
Monday, July 14, 2014

Tenet Healthcare (THC), Humana (HUM) Enter New Multi-Year Contract

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Tenet Healthcare Corporation ( NYSE :  THC ) and Humana Inc. (NYSE:  HUM )   have signed a new multi-year contract extension that provides...
Saturday, July 12, 2014

Is Your Organization Prepared to Score 5 STARS this Year?

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As mandated by the Affordable Care Act, CMS currently provides a quality bonus payment (QBP) for Medicare Advantage organizations  and Medi...

Medicare and Medicaid Programs: Changes to OPPS, Data Sources Expanded and New Appeals Process for MAO's

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Medicare and Medicaid Programs: Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems and Quality Reporti...
Thursday, July 10, 2014

Kansas-based physicians group unhappy with Medicare payment plan

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TOPEKA  — The American Academy of Family Physicians, based in Leawood, has some issues with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...