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CMS's New Proposal For Physician Fees
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released proposed changes for payments for 2019. The medical media and the various professional societies are busy identifying the losers and winners. For a move that will affect all physicians and impacts approximately 1.5% of our GDP [1], we deserve to know more about these changes than a self-serving summary of winners and losers. The Current System Practitioners [2] are currently paid for five levels of office visits based on how broad a patient history…
Industry Voices—Telemedicine's time to shine: Can credentialing keep up?
We know coronavirus is driving demand for telemedicine; it’s crucial that providers are credentialed to handle the spike. New breeds of cloud-based credentialing technology exist now and can improve this process, helping to move adoption forward.
8 reasons to rely on a CMS for web development
Every website owner, before ordering a website, faces a dilemma: whether to use a professional developer’s services or try one of the ready-made solutions that content management systems offer. It’s a fight between web developers and ready-made website builders: who offers a more comfortable option for creating a fully-functional website that is easy to manage, customize and that looks great on any device? Professionals blame CMSs…
Industry Voices—3 ways healthcare providers can take advantage of CMS’ reduced burdens
Federal regulations require a great deal of physicians’ time—not to mention the looming penalties they could face if they fall short.
Industry Voices—Taking the pain out of prior authorization management through automation
If there’s one thing healthcare providers can agree on, it’s that prior authorization management is a heavy administrative burden and only growing heavier. While the need to streamline prior authorization has been evident for years, the financial devastation caused by COVID-19 has motivated providers to reexamine it—and the entire revenue cycle—for improvement opportunities.
Industry Voices—From millennials to boomers, digital patient care is key
The recent pandemic has shown the healthcare industry that—ready or not—technology was here, it was necessary, and it was time to embrace it or get left behind. COVID-19 showed us just how much more we can do digitally, and it showed us why that’s important.
Industry Voices—4 lessons to develop and implement a system telehealth strategy
“Digitization is finally coming to healthcare.” For years, we have been hearing some version of this phrase. It's been slow coming, but healthcare systems are making progress when it comes to adopting telehealth.
CMS needs to provide more support to small, physician-led ACOs or risk drop-outs: report
Small physician-led Accountable Care Organizations have shown success in reducing costs while improving quality, but they need more support to continue down that road, according to a new report. There's three steps CMS can take to help.
To really improve patients’ health, address poverty and other social needs, physician group says
Now is the time to address patient issues that go beyond good medical care, including poverty and other social needs that impact health, doctors say.
Industry Voices—We need to be strategic as digital technology transforms oncology
Both the oncology patient’s and his or her provider’s cancer care experience will be completely different a decade from now, driven, in large part, by the increased implementation of digital health technology. We need to be careful as regulators work to sort through how to pay for and regulate the new technologies.
CMS Buyer's Checklist
This is the night, it’s a beautiful night, and they call it bella notte. Why? Because we’re wrapping up our five-part series on choosing an enterprise web CMS. (You can still catch parts one , two , three , and four .) Before we start gazing wistfully over a plate of spaghetti, let’s wrap up our thoughts across the six factors of CMS success. We’ve put together a convenient CMS buyer’s checklist to help you across the finish line as you select your…
Industry Voices—How machine learning and predictive analytics prevented septic shock at Nemours...
Innovation has finally caught up to this age-old issue of sepsis by harnessing the power of predictive analytics. Three years ago, at Nemours Children’s Health System, a multidisciplinary system-wide team built a sepsis response tool that capitalizes on the health system’s technological resources.
Physician Practice Roundup—Study: Payers slowly migrating toward value-based reimbursement
While CMS has embraced value-based reimbursement, the country’s health insurance companies are still far from widespread adoption, a new survey found.
