Electronic Health Record Incentives, Healthcare

CMS Releases Sequestration Details; Medicare EHR Incentive Payments Subject to Two-Percent Reduction

by King & Spalding on 3/12/2013

On March 8, 2013, CMS announced that it will apply the two-percent sequestration reduction to all Medicare provider payments with dates of service/discharge on or after April 1, 2013. The announcement also states that claims...more

CMS Alters Procedures for Physicians Practicing in CAHs to Qualify as Meaningful Users

by King & Spalding on 1/25/2013

CMS announced on January 17, 2013, that it is changing its claims processing systems to enable eligible practitioners (EPs) who furnish outpatient services in critical access hospitals (CAHs) to participate in the Medicare...more

Audits, Audits And More Audits: Life In The Healthcare Industry

by Michael Volkov on 1/13/2013

Healthcare suppliers and service providers live in a regulated world. They are constantly under audit scrutiny. Sometimes federal agencies (i.e private contractors) conduct the audits; other times state agencies conduct the...more

OCR Issues Guidance On HIPAA Privacy Rule’s De-Identification Standard

by Ryan Blaney, Tzvia Feiertag | Proskauer - Privacy & Data Security on 12/7/2012

On November 26, 2012, the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) published a thirty-two page document titled “Guidance Regarding Methods for De-identification of Protected Health Information...more

Meaningful Use Mash-Up: Update on Deadlines, Changes for Stage 2, and the Start of MU Audits

by Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 10/2/2012

The march towards electronic health records (“EHRs”) and health information exchange continues. It is worth noting a number of recent changes to the Medicare and Medicaid Meaningful Use programs governing incentives for...more

Health Care Legal News - September 28, 2012 • Volume 2, Number 8

by Dickinson Wright on 10/1/2012

In This Issue: - THE DW HEALTHCARE TEAM IS GROWING: With the addition of six new healthcare attorneys, the DW Healthcare Team has expanded its expertise and its depth... - RECOVERY OF LOST PROFESSIONAL...more

How Physician Practices and Physicians Can Take Advantage of the Supreme Court's ACA Ruling

by Saul Ewing LLP on 9/11/2012

The June 28th Supreme Court ruling to uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("ACA") removed some of the uncertainty surrounding the immediate short-term prospects for health care reform. Now that the debate...more

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