Tag Archives: Medicare

Health Wonk Review: money talks, but IT helps

Posted on May 10, 2013 by Neil Versel

The latest edition of Health Wonk Review is hot off the digital presses, with Joe Paduda taking hosting duties on his Managed Care Matters blog. And managed care does matter in this trip around the health blogosphere, with most of … Continue reading →

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Video: Live from HIMSS with Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Neil Versel

NEW ORLEANS—I made my debut for the new Health Innovation Broadcast Consortium last night with a live webcast interview with Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush. As usual, I didn’t need to prepare much for the interview because Bush almost interviews himself, … Continue reading →

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My HIMSS will be all about quality and patient safety

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Neil Versel

As regular readers might already know, 2012 was a transformative year in my life, and mostly not in a good way. I ended the year on a high note, taking a character-building six-day, 400-mile bike tour through the mountains, desert … Continue reading →

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Reasons Hospitals Acquire Medical Practices

Posted on January 28, 2013 by John

The Charlotte Observer did a great report on the shift to hospital owned medical practices. For those not familiar with the shift, here’s the numbers the article offers: Last year, 47 percent of U.S. physicians were employed by hospitals – … Continue reading →

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HHS OIG Begins Digging Into EMR Overbilling Allegations

Posted on November 5, 2012 by Anne Zieger

Well, it had to happen: The furor over the possible EMR-related Medicare overbilling has moved to its next stage.  After enduring harangues by members of Congress and a widely-read New York Times article alleging that EMRs were upcoding machines, HHS has … Continue reading →

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EMR Overbilling Investigations Sling Mud At Meaningful Use Program

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Anne Zieger

In the wake of an expose in The New York Times claiming that upcoding and overbilling was increasing with the use of EMRs, and members of Congress riding the claim, I guess ONC had no choice but to take the allegations seriously. … Continue reading →

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Most ‘sentinel events’ caused by poor communication

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Neil Versel

LOS ANGELES—I’m on the west coast now, first for the  USC Body Computing Conference here Friday, and then for the annual Health 2.0 conference up in San Francisco Monday and Tuesday. Friday there was a lot of talk of healthcare … Continue reading →

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Medicare’s New Requirement for Evidence-based Order Sets

Posted on August 13, 2012 by John

The following is a guest post by Sean Benson. Sean Benson is co-founder of ProVation Medical and Vice President of Innovation at Wolters Kluwer Health. In-house creation and maintenance of order sets by hospital staff just got a bit more … Continue reading →

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Doctors Fear EMRs Will Mess Up E&M Coding

Posted on July 25, 2012 by Anne Zieger

Here’s one more example of technology clashing with habit. Apparently, even when EMRs are ready to code for doctors, Medicare physicians often hand-code anyway, according to the HHS Office of the Inspector General. The OIG study, which was requested by … Continue reading →

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Guest Post: How One of the Nation’s Top Hospitals Made the Switch to EMR Easier

Posted on July 2, 2012 by John

In 2010, the Obama administration rolled out an ambitious five-year plan, moving doctors and hospitals to electronic medical records (EMR), with the goal of reducing costs and providing greater safety for patients. When the plan was announced, the federal government … Continue reading →

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