Now more than ever, providers are exploring whether the Medicare or Medicaid reimbursement program is best to receive their EHR incentive payments. For many, both are an option, and according to ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has spent more than $653 million on Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record incentive payments to date, according to a CMS August EHR monthly ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that Iowa’s Medicaid program is the first to receive federal matching funds for planning activities necessary to implement the electronic health ...

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) created major incentive programs for clinicians and hospitals that adopt electronic health records and achieve certain Meaningful Use (MU) ...

Most Medicare physicians assign codes for evaluation and management services despite the fact that most EHR systems can assist them, according to an American Medical News report. The Department of ...

If you are a physician, mid-level provider, or work with those providers, then you have been bombarded with new acronyms for new programs and promises to remove older ...

In April 2016, Quorum Health spun out from one of the largest publicly traded hospital companies in the United States with 160 affiliated hospitals in 22 states, as an independent, publicly traded ...

Data fragmentation and inefficiency are most evident in the quality reporting approach currently used for accountable care organizations by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services—the ...