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April 1, 2020 / By Pam Banning
Unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures. Most In Vitro Diagnostic (IVD) manufacturers that can adapt their instrumentation to SARS-CoV-2 testing are doing so. Since the FDA started authorizing Emergency Use […]
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March 25, 2020 / By Barbara Aubry, RN
My blog posts discuss healthcare compliance issues and normally I focus on CMS, OIG, audits, coding and rules. But at this unusual time, I’m finding it challenging to focus on […]
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Feb. 21, 2020 / By Rachael Howe, RN, MS, Tiffany Harman, RN, BSN
We introduced the Women in AMIA Leadership Program in an earlier blog, and would like to provide an update. We’ve worked hard preparing for the first face-to-face meeting, held in […]
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Feb. 14, 2020 / By Barbara Aubry, RN
Audits of Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCCs) have been performed for years as a way for Part C vendors (Medicare Advantage Organizations) to identify and support patients with complex needs. Higher […]
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Feb. 12, 2020 / By Pam Banning
Wuhan, the capital of Central China’s Hubei province, is under siege. Hundreds of thousands of people are being screened for fever and observable signs of illness at travel junctures. Nearby […]
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Dec. 9, 2019 / By Barbara Aubry, RN
On December 3, I attended the CMS call on the final rule for hospital price transparency requirements. On December 4, I read an article in the New York Times stating […]
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Nov. 13, 2019 / By Tiffany Harman, RN, BSN, Rachael Howe, RN, MS
The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) has inaugurated the Women in AMIA Leadership Program, kicking off the first face-to-face meeting in conjunction with this week’s 2019 AMIA Annual Symposium in […]
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Nov. 8, 2019 / By Barbara Aubry, RN
While reading a recent CMS release regarding proposed updates to the Stark Law, I was reminded that it was first released in 1998. With value-based reimbursement, relationships between providers has […]
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Oct. 16, 2019 / By Pam Banning
I recently listened to a laboratory medicine podcast on the need for clinician friendly terms in laboratory testing. They gave various ordering error examples where the assay values provided no […]
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Oct. 7, 2019 / By Cheryl Manchenton, RN
As I mentioned in my previous blogs, the sign of the times in health care can often be reflected in the proposed (and confirmed) new electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQMs). […]
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Oct. 2, 2019 / By Barbara Aubry, RN
This has been in the works for a while: On July 26, 2019 CMS released CR Transmittal R2323OTN, Med Learn Matters number 11268 to take effect January 1, 2020 with […]
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Sept. 23, 2019 / By Gretchen Mills
MedPAC, the advisory commission to Congress for Medicare, presented its evaluation of the Medicare Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP) at the September meeting. The HRRP was enacted in 2010. In […]
