Andrea Kraynak, April 15, 2009. CMS continued its efforts this week to educate healthcare providers on the permanent Recovery Audit Contractor program with an Open Door Forum call for Medicare Part B providers on April 14. A similar call for Part A providers was held on April 8. Providers may wish to listen to the […]

HealthLeaders Media, April 16, 2009. A new survey of hospital CIOs finds that the federal government’s $36 billion “carrot” of financial reimbursements to install electronic health records won’t be nearly as powerful an incentive as the “stick” of reduced Medicare reimbursements if they don’t. The survey of 100 hospital CIOs was conducted in March and […]

Health Leaders Media – April 13, 2009. CMS today announced the 14 communities around the nation that have been picked for its three-year pilot project to eliminate unnecessary hospital readmissions that cost Medicare billions of dollars annually in preventable care. A study published this month in the New England Journal of Medicine found that nearly […]