Agencies Look Back at 2020 Accomplishments
HHS and its agencies share their annual reports and 2020 year in reviews. Like everything in healthcare in 2020, COVID took center stage, but agencies did continue their missions and initiatives.
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Industry Responds to CMS PFS Final Rule
The CY 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule was published in the Federal Register on December 2, 2020. This final rule updates payment policies, payment rates, and other provisions for services furnished under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) on or after Jan. 1, 2021. Here are reactions to the rule.
Telemedicine 2020
We are seeking out the latest developments around telemedicine. How is telemedicine used to benefit patients and care givers? News from Rhinogram, ModRN Health, Conversion Labs, ATA, SnapMD, MobileSmith Health, MDLive, SOC Telemed, Updox, GlobalMed and more.
Step By Step: Incremental Telehealth Change
By Matt Fisher – Building on years of hype and promise, telehealth began to get its moment in early 2020 when COVID-19 brought much of the healthcare system to a halt as a means of enabling care to be focused on the growing pandemic.
CMS Releases 2021 Final Rule for the Quality Payment Program
CMS published the final policies for the 2021 performance year of the Quality Payment Program (QPP) through the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule. Read the highlights.
The CMS ADT Mandate Is Coming. Are You Ready?
By Todd Thompson BSN RN – Are you ready to share admissions, discharge and transfer (ADT) data with other providers in 2021? Sharing this information can help improve care coordination and lower readmissions, while failing to do so can put you in violation of a new CMS mandate.
Reminder: Upcoming MIPS Important Dates and Deadlines
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) would like to remind clinicians of important upcoming Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) dates and deadlines:
CMS Selects Seven Finalists to Advance to Stage 2 of the AI Health Outcomes Challenge
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced the Participants (the Finalists) selected to advance to Stage 2 of the CMS Artificial Intelligence (AI) Health Outcomes Challenge.
CMS Announces New Timeline for HOS Fielding in 2021
By Esther Turner – CMS has just announced that fielding for Health Outcomes Surveys (HOS) will take place only from August through November, replacing the previous April through July timeline.