Researchers at NYU Langone found that many informal consultations between referrers and radiologists were captured incompletely or inadequately in the electronic health record (EHR), according to...Read More »
The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Health and Human Service Office of Inspector General announced on Thursday, July 13, charges against 412 individuals responsible for $1.3 billion in false billing. This fraud takedown is the largest in DOJ history,...Read More »
The Mayo Clinic Health System recently began a $1.5 billion electronic health record (EHR) rollout which will affect all 70 of the system’s facilities and 51,000 employees across the country, according to...Read More »
More than 585,000 eligible clinicians could be excluded from the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) requirements due to proposed changes to the program’s low-volume threshold, ...Read More »
Appeals cost providers roughly $118 per claim—extrapolated nationwide that amounts to as much as $8.6 billion in administrative costs necessary to recover initially denied claims, according to a new report from Change Healthcare,...Read More »
CMS released a change request May 30 describing changes which will be implemented in the July 2017 quarterly update to the outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS...Read More »
