Any provider attesting to receive an EHR incentive payment for either the Medicare or Medicaid EHR Incentive Program potentially can be subject to an audit. Here’s what you need to know to make sure you’re prepared: Overview of the CMS … Continue reading
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CMS launches prepayment audits of Meaningful Use attesters
Convergent Medical can help you with your CMS audit – don’t let them take money out of your practice – AGAIN! Call us today. By Marla Durben Hirsch In what appears to be a shift in policy, the Centers for … Continue reading
A virtual office visit for your cold is not a good idea
Like many other primary care doctors across the country, I’m seeing my fair share of patients with runny noses during this winter season. I recently saw a patient for a sinus infection whom asked, “Why did I have to come … Continue reading
Same-day surgery centers putting Brooklyn hospitals at risk of losing...
New York City’s financially strapped hospitals are worried they could be put out of business by a new threat: rival “same-day” surgery centers that are popping up across the five boroughs, The Post has learned. There are 36 so-called ambulatory … Continue reading
ONC’s Judy Murphy: Ability to send and receive health data not...
Meaningful Use has given interoperability a ‘kick in the pants,’ but there’s still a ways to go March 4, 2013 | By Gienna Shaw Technology has laid the groundwork for better patient care and workflow, but technology must be the … Continue reading
Proposed meaningful use stage 3 criticized as hasty and too strict
Rigid requirements to meet electronic health record measures will trip up physicians attempting to stop upcoming penalties, warn the AMA and others in organized medicine. By Charles Fiegl, amednews staff. Posted Jan. 28, 2013. Washington Criteria floated for the final … Continue reading
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Tele-Medicine – The Future
Remote, and in control: DOs reach new patients as telemedicine comes of age In rural Oklahoma, a patient visited his local rural hospital complaining of chest pain. The attending physician set up a videoconference, which allowed the patient to consult … Continue reading
Waste in medicine is disrespectful to both patients and doctors
by Christopher Moriates, MD on November 5th, 2012in Physician I learned a lot of medicine during residency, but perhaps I actually learned even more about how to just get things done in a hospital. If you wanted a right-upper-quadrant ultrasound … Continue reading
Navigating Difficult Patient Encounters
10 simple tips to help you manage your most challenging patients It is your last appointment of the day and you see that a patient has scheduled an appointment to be seen for sinusitis. You sigh, because you know this … Continue reading
