Electronic health records (EHR) is a patient centric information resource for physicians that represent a major domain of health information technology (HIT). The EHR system facilitates improved...
ICD-10 Delay – Its Impact on Students
Healthcare providers, insurance payers and vendors aren't the only entities that are affected by the unexpected ICD-10 delay of more than a year. Delay in implementing this coding system is...
How Powerful a Beacon is HEDIS?
If you'd want to compare HEDIS to something, a lighthouse wouldn't be too far-fetched an object of comparison. Quite like the way it guides ships, HEDIS guides people to sign up for the right health...
ACOG Says Certain Medicare Contractors are Denying G0101 Claims
The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) reports that some Medicare contractors are refusing to provide payment for routine pelvic and breast examinations when they are...
Increased Administrative Costs Shutting Down Physician Private Practices
A recent report CNNMoney report states that physicians in the U.S. have started selling their private practices to big hospitals because of rising business costs and falling reimbursements from...
What is HEDIS Coding?
The Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) is set of norms employed by most of the healthcare plans in the US for measuring performance in relation to service and care. HEDIS was...
Medicare Payment Reductions to Affect Doctors and Beneficiaries
Medicare beneficiaries, doctors and other healthcare providers are in for quite a tough time thanks to rising healthcare costs not coinciding with a proportionate increase in income for the latter....
Proper Appointment Scheduling Can Help Lower Patient Wait Time
According to healthcare experts, making relevant changes in scheduling and managing patient workflow can minimize the average patient wait time for a new appointment from eleven weeks to two weeks....
Health Exchange Deadline for States Extended
The deadline for setting up a state-based health insurance exchange has been extended until December 14. Announcing this, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that this was...