After being diagnosed with a severe health problem, such as cancer or autoimmune disease, the last thing a patient wants to worry about is whether all the tests, procedures, and treatments they are being told to undergo are necessary or not. Unfortunately, that is the exact happens to many patients. Tina, a recent breast cancer patient, is …continue reading
You would be hard pressed to find a physician that says they got into practice to deal with insurance companies. In fact, medical billing poses one of the most confounding problems in medical practices in this country. In order to continue providing care to patients, you have to have an income. An efficient, effective …continue reading
Physicians and healthcare personnel these days make use of their electronic health record (EHR) to evaluate data in order to provide their patients with value-based care. EHR provides access to rich, comprehensive data on a large population for research, analytics, healthcare outcomes, diagnosis, and preventive care. The end goal of acquiring this data is to …continue reading
US healthcare is researching ways to tackle the challenges of lowering costs and improving the quality and the outcome. The traditional, age-old Fee for Service model is under scrutiny for being expensive and for focussing on rewarding medical providers for volume and quantity of services rather than the results. Within the current fee-for-service system there are …continue reading
Fee for service (FFS) is the most traditional payment model of healthcare. In this model, the healthcare providers and physicians are reimbursed on the basis of the number of services they provide or procedures they conduct. Payments in an FFS model are not bundled. This means that the insurance companies or the government agencies …continue reading
HIPAA compliance is a crucial prerequisite for any company remotely dealing with any healthcare information. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) was signed into law under the Clinton Administration in order to ensure the privacy and security of medical information. The HIPAA Privacy Rule dictates the usage of Protected Health Information …continue reading
Now Available: MIPS 2017 Performance Feedback and Final Score; Process for Targeted Review; EIDM Account Creation CMS is out with MIPS 2017 Performance Feedback and Final Score. All Medicare practitioners and groups who had submitted MIPS 2017data can check their MIPS 2017 Performance Score released by CMS recently. MIPS 2017 Performance Score is available to …continue reading