February 25, 2010
By:Ron Rajecki
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and American Society for Quality expect to issue a call for submissions for their "Stories of Success! Leveraging HIT, Improving Quality & Safety" series in early March.
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January 28, 2010
By:Ron Rajecki
Eighty-five percent of healthcare providers believe that their ambulatory electronic health record software will let them meet the 2011 meaningful use deadlines being considered by the federal government, according to a report from research firm KLAS.
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December 4, 2009
By:Virginia Martin, CPC, CHBC
Various areas of coding, including PQRI measures, ophthalmology consults, are addressed
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October 23, 2008
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) has given the green light to a hospital's proposed arrangement to change its pay-for-performance program to allow for sharing with a physician-owned entity a percentage of the bonus compensation it receives from a private insurer for meeting certain quality targets, according to an advisory opinion posted October 14.
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March 7, 2008
By:Dennis Murray
By lowering their patients' cost of care doctors who participate in the new Bridges to Excellence Medical Home program can earn a potential annual bonus of $125 for each patient covered by a participating employer.
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January 18, 2008
By:Ken Terry
Payers' efforts to measure and report on physician performance draw fire from the AMA and AAFP.
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November 23, 2007
By:Ken Terry
Many physicians didn't participate in CMS' Physician Quality Reporting Initiative because Medicare's bonus didn't justify the costs involved. But a new service might help physicians get onboard if CMS extends the program next year.
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March 2, 2007
By:Ken Terry
That's what West Virginia's Medicaid program is aiming for. But in the process, physicians may be put in a very bad place.
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March 2, 2007
By:Wayne J. Guglielmo
How far will you go to get patients to comply? In the era of pay-for-performance, that question just got a whole lot more difficult.
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