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Meaningful Use Changes for 2016
Editor's Note: Subsequent to the publication of this article, CMS has renamed the "Meaningful Use" programs to "Promoting Interoperability". Once again we are sitting in the beginning of August with the potential for CMS to change program requirements for the EHR...
Meaningful Use morphs into “Advancing Care Information” under MACRA/MIPS
Editor's Note: Subsequent to the publication of this article, CMS has renamed the MIPS "Advancing Care Information" category to "Promoting Interoperability". The MACRA legislation established the Medicare Incentive Payment System (MIPS) program. In April 2016 CMS...
OCR Details 5 Most Common HIPAA Mistakes
The Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) recently detailed the 5 most common mistakes that organizations make in their HIPAA compliance programs, as reported by TechTarget's SearchHealthIT coverage. According to OCR, the 5 most common HIPAA...
The HIPAA Internal Audit
Because the Honor System Doesn't Work Electronic record systems contain a vast trove of interesting information – which can be a great temptation for a curious employee when they know that their relative, friend or neighbor was in the clinic. It has been 15 years...
Vendor Risk Highlighted by Medhost Backdoor
This month Carnegie Mellon University's CERT Division issued an advisory regarding a flaw in Medhost's Perioperative Information Management System (PIMS). PIMS is a widely used suite of applications for surgery departments to manage surgical cases from initial consult...
Meaningful Use, PQRS and Value Modifier for 2016
Editor's Note: Subsequent to the publication of this article, CMS has renamed the "Meaningful Use" programs and MIPS "Advancing Care Information" category to "Promoting Interoperability". For 2016 the three Medicare Incentive programs -- Meaningful Use, PQRS and the...
The PQRS replacement
The Merit-based incentive Payment System (MIPS) introduces 4 measure categories to the Medicare incentive program space. As we have mentioned in previous posts, MIPS is the new law of the land, replacing Medicare's Meaningful Use, PQRS and Value Modifier incentive...
Understanding the MIPS Scoring
As we mentioned in our initial post (What the MIPS?), the payment modifier for MIPS will be determined by a performance threshold (PT) set by CMS and your individual or group Composite Performance Score (CPS). This CPS is a number between 0 and 100 is calculated by...
