The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is ioffering a series of “Nationwide RAC 101 Calls.” The calls, open to the public healthcare community, are scheduled for late April and early May as follows: <a href="https://www.harmonyhit.com/cms-offers-series-of-nationwide-rac-101-calls/#more-1227" class="more-link"><span aria-label="Continue reading CMS Offers Series of Nationwide RAC 101 Calls">(more…)</span></a>
<p align="left">The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—health system reform legislation signed into law by President Obama on March 23—contains a number of key provisions for you and your patients. Some provisions may have an immediate impact on your practice and patients, while others will not take effect for some time. <a href="https://www.harmonyhit.com/ama-health-system-reform-insight/#more-1221" class="more-link"><span aria-label="Continue reading AMA Health System Reform Insight">(more…)</span></a></p>
President Obama will nominate health-care scholar Donald Berwick to oversee Medicare and Medicaid, the nation’s health insurance programs for the elderly and the poor, an administration official said Saturday. <a href="https://www.harmonyhit.com/berwick-nominated-for-medicaid-medicare-post/#more-1219" class="more-link"><span aria-label="Continue reading Berwick Nominated for Medicaid-Medicare Post">(more…)</span></a>
On March 21, 2010, the United States House of Representatives passed <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:h.r.3590:" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">H.R. 3590</a>, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Also passed was <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:h.r.04872:" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">H.R. 4872</a>, the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act, <a href="https://www.harmonyhit.com/house-passes-health-reform-legislation/#more-1214" class="more-link"><span aria-label="Continue reading House Passes Health Reform Legislation">(more…)</span></a>
The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) conducted research to determine the ability of medical groups to meet the meaningful use requirements and qualify for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) electronic health record (EHR) incentive programs. To review key findings from the research, click here. <a href="https://www.harmonyhit.com/mgma-shows-meaningful-use-may-cause-decrease-in-physician-productivity/#more-1208" class="more-link"><span aria-label="Continue reading MGMA shows ‘meaningful use’ may cause decrease in physician productivity">(more…)</span></a>
The proposed rules for meaningful use of EHRs include a series of standards related to certification of EHR systems, seemingly opening up the certification process to more than just the long-established Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology. <a href="https://www.harmonyhit.com/leavitt-says-not-to-wait-for-final-meaningful-use-rules/#more-1198" class="more-link"><span aria-label="Continue reading Leavitt says not to wait for final meaningful use rules">(more…)</span></a>
Written by Aliya Sternstein at <a href="http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090715_6084.php" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">NextGov.com</a> in July of 2009, this article explains why some vendors and hospital managers believe that varying state medical record retention regulations may add cost to the Obama administration’s plan to implement electronic health records. <a href="https://www.harmonyhit.com/state-medical-record-retention-laws-complicate-white-house-plans/#more-1196" class="more-link"><span aria-label="Continue reading State Medical Record Retention Laws Complicate White House Plans">(more…)</span></a>
The Senate stripped out provisions in a pending jobs bill that would have put hospital-based physicians who treated outpatients in line to receive health IT incentives under the HITECH Act. <a href="https://www.harmonyhit.com/bill-to-expand-ehr-incentives-to-hospital-outpatient-docs-stripped/#more-1190" class="more-link"><span aria-label="Continue reading Bill to Expand EHR Incentives to Hospital Outpatient Docs Stripped">(more…)</span></a>
The Senate Finance Committee today released the draft of a jobs bill that removes a ban against physicians in hospital-based outpatient clinics from participating in the health IT incentives in the HITECH Act. <a href="https://www.harmonyhit.com/draft-bill-expands-ehr-incentives-to-outpatient-docs/#more-1186" class="more-link"><span aria-label="Continue reading Draft Bill Expands EHR Incentives to Outpatient Docs">(more…)</span></a>