Education released for 5010, new HIPAA X12 transaction standards. Obama FY2011 budget allocations millions for Health IT. HME industry snubbed by HHS at Medicare fraud summit.
WEDI to Build ICD-10 Vendor Directory. ATA to coordinate telemedicine assistance for Haiti. Small progress noticed in movement toward telehealth reimbursement.
BALTIMORE, MD — Newswise — January 28 — National home care and health care leaders kicked off an 18-month national home-health quality-improvement campaign this month at CMS headquarters in Baltimore.
Reminder: OASIS submission login system begins to change next month.
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Complete text of CMS/ONC “meaningful use” proposed rule.
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society has weighed in on the HHS meaningful use statement. On first read of the proposed regulations, HIMSS believes that there is much more to applaud than criticize. The organization also goes on to say it is important that the healthcare community offers suggestions, revisions and commentary during the next 60 days.
Baltimore, MD — December 30, 2009 — Today, CMS released a proposed rule defining “meaningful use” of electronic health records, the standard by which providers will be judged to qualify for bonus incentive payments as authorized under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). At the same time, the Office of the National Coordinator for [...]
Since the inception of Medicare Fraud Strike Force operations in March 2007, the Strike Force has obtained indictments of more than 460 individuals and organizations that collectively have falsely billed the Medicare program for more than one billion dollars. In addition to the fraud hotbeds in Los Angeles, Houston, Detroit and — the one that [...]
Attorney General Holder and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently announced the creation of a new interagency effort, the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT), to combat Medicare fraud. Holder and Sebelius also announced the expansion of Strike Force team operations to Detroit and Houston. Medicare Fraud Strike Forces, [...]
Health care fraud enforcement has restored funds to the trust funds and protected our citizens from health care fraud schemes. The Department is committed to the ongoing success of the HCFAC program and will continue to marshal its resources, including those provided by the HCFAC program and its own discretionary funds, to ensure that federal health care dollars are properly expended. We are committed to prosecuting fraud and abuse in the Medicare and Medicaid programs and restoring the recovered proceeds to these programs. We look forward to working with Congress and this Committee in particular, through these efforts, to make health care available to those who have no such safety net.
In order to receive stimulus funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), healthcare providers must not only purchase Electronic Health Record system but are also required to put them to “meaningful use.” Guest author Lawrence Kerr, an upstate New York surgeon who, with his pediatrician wife, last year developed an online wound care [...]
