Deadline Approach for HRSA Grant Opportunities
3 Health Resources and Services Administration grants are still open for applications but deadlines are approaching next week. The grants focus on rural health assistance and programs.
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ICD-10 and Meaningful Use – BFF’s?
By Susan Clark – Are you feeling like ICD-10 and Meaningful Use are your ‘frenemies’, competing for your attention like Paris and Lindsay, Katie and Rhianna, or Taylor and Selena? Then it is time to re-examine that relationship because in reality ICD-10 has the back of Meaningful Use.
After Two Decades, A Few Simple Questions
The healthcare industry has endured more than 20 years of research, hearings, testimony, proposed rules, comment periods, final rules, and three ICD-10 delays. Nearly $30 billion in costs have been incurred to plan, train, convert systems, test, and prepare for ICD-10.
NAACOs Comments on the Final Regulations for the Medicare ACO Program
In December, the CMS, and the OMB published a lengthy notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to improve the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP).
Don’t Sleep on ICD-10 Testing
By Ken Edwards – The value of ICD-10 testing is deeper than confirming that your software is up-to-date and your vendors are tuned in and ready to support you throughout the transition. Testing is a time-sensitive training and learning opportunity for you, your vendors, and your payers—invaluable for key front-line staff in particular.
CMS Conducts Second Successful Medicare FFS ICD-10 End-to-End Testing
From April 27 through May 1, 2015, Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS) health care providers, clearinghouses, and billing agencies participated in a second successful ICD-10 end-to-end testing week with all Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) and the Durable Medical Equipment (DME) MAC Common Electronic Data Interchange (CEDI) contractor.
Health Datapalooza 2015: Where More Data Works for Better Health
By Sarianne Gruber – Announcemets from Health DataPalooza 2015, now in its sixth year included the Obesity Challenge, more Medicare data transparency, and release of more Medicare claims data.
So What is Interoperability Anyway?
By John Halamka MD – The use of the term interoperability is being tossed around in ways that makes it seem like the test for obscenity used by Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in 1964.
Coalition for ICD-10 Comments on CMS April End-to-End Testing
The Coalition for ICD-10 congratulates CMS on the success of its April end-to-end testing, which demonstrated that CMS systems are ready to accept ICD-10 claims.