ACA Support to Improve Care Coordination for Nearly 200,000 People with Medicare

From the CMS Fact Sheet: The Federally Qualified Health Center Advanced Primary Care Practice (FQHC APCP) demonstration project is a new Affordable Care Act initiative that will pay an estimated $42 million over three years to up to 500 FQHCs to coordinate care for Medicare patients.  This demonstration project, operated by the Centers for Medicare […]

New Rule Will Reduce Payments for Healthcare Acquired Conditions

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From the CMS Press Release: CMS issued a final Affordable Care Act rule that will reduce or prohibit payments to doctors, hospitals and other health care providers for services that result from certain preventable healthcare acquired illnesses or injuries.  This rule will help reward providers who provide high quality care to people in Medicaid leading […]

CMS announces first Medicare EHR incentive payments

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From the CMS Fact Sheet: On May 19, 2011, the Medicare EHR Incentive Program issued the first round of payments totaling $75 million to providers who signed up in the first two weeks of the program. On April 18 CMS opened a secure website through which eligible professionals (EPs), eligible hospitals, and critical access hospitals […]

First Medicare Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentive Payments Total $75 Million; Providers Offered Flexibility in Adopting E-Prescribing

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From the CMS Announcement: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced two steps that will help modernize America’s health care delivery system by encouraging doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers to adopt and meaningfully use health information technology.  Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, providers are receiving incentive payments through both […]

CMS’ Proposed Rule for the Electronic Prescribing (ERX) Incentive Program

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From the CMS Announcement: CMS has issued proposed changes to the Medicare Electronic Prescribing (eRx) Incentive Program. In addition to setting forth the requirements for reporting the electronic prescribing quality measure for the 2011 eRx incentive, the calendar year (CY) 2011 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule, published in the Federal Register on November […]

CMS announces first Medicare EHR incentive payments

From the CMS Fact Sheet: On May 19, 2011, the Medicare EHR Incentive Program issued the first round of payments totaling $75 million to providers who signed up in the first two weeks of the program. On April 18 CMS opened a secure website through which eligible professionals (EPs), eligible hospitals, and critical access hospitals […]

First Medicare Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentive Payments Total $75 Million; Providers Offered Flexibility in Adopting E-Prescribing

From the CMS Announcement: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced two steps that will help modernize America’s health care delivery system by encouraging doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers to adopt and meaningfully use health information technology.  Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, providers are receiving incentive payments through both […]

MLN Article (May, 2011) July 2011 Update of the Hospital OPPS

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This document is from: MLN Matters Article #:MM7443 Posted: May 27, 2011 Related CR#: 7443 July 2011 Update of the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) Change Request (CR) 7443 describes changes to and billing instructions for various payment policies implemented in the July 2011 OPPS update. The July 2011 Integrated Outpatient Code Editor (I/OCE) […]

IPF PPS Rate Year 2012 (July 2011 Update)

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This document is from: MLN Matters Article #:MM7367 Posted: May 20, 2011                                Related CR#: 7367 Effective Date: Discharges on or after July 1, 2011 Update – Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities Prospective Payment System (IPF PPS) Rate Year 2012 This article is based on Change Request (CR) 7367 which identifies changes that are required as part of […]