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How 2014 IPPS Final Rule Impacts Physicians Admitting Patients to Hospitals

The Health Law Firm

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On August 2, 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2014 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Final Rule (the 2014 IPPS Final Rule). Indest III, J.D.,

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Bipartisan Plan for SGR Repeal Released

The Health Law Firm

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law After months of negotiations on how to revise Medicare's payment system for physicians, the bipartisan team of Senate and House committees have reached a deal on the policy. On February 6, 2014, lawmakers unveiled the agreement to repeal Medicare's sustainable growth rate (SGR).

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The Empathy-First Approach: Choosing Technology that Benefits All Healthcare Stakeholders

Healthcare IT Today

The current healthcare system is rife with administrative inefficiencies and redundancies, which can lead to delayed or denied payments for payers. Payers have to manage complex payment systems, track performance, and ensure regulatory compliance. In 2014, he received the Louis J.

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CMS Issues Long-Awaited Medicare Advantage RADV Final Rule

Healthcare Law Blog

Remitting Improper Payments The proposed rule would have required MA organizations to remit extrapolated recovery amounts from RADV audit findings through CMS’s payment system, the Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug system or “MARx”, as offsets to MA organizations’ monthly capitation payments. Becerra et al.,

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On National Rural Health Day, We Recommit to Improving Rural Health

CMS.gov

Many rural communities lack access to specialty care and have a fragmented healthcare delivery system with an overworked and shrinking health workforce. As indicated in the FY 2019 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) final rule, CMS is actively considering the comments we received in order to inform future actions.

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Gearing up for Immunizations

Redox

However, it explicitly did not define an applicable transport standard (how the data is moved from one place to another) for the data: ONC has made it clear that we do not require EHR technology to be certified to any transport standard, including Direct, to meet the 2014 certification criterion.

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How the Fifty States View Electronic Data as a “Product”

Drug & Device Law

2014 WL 46696, at *5 (C.D. 3, 2014) (claim dismissed absent any “facts to support that Defendant’s software includes physical items or is a tangible product”); Windsor Auctions, Inc. 2014 WL 1247768, at *3 (E.D. March 25, 2014); Torres v. 2014) (plaintiff’s “theory is that [defendant’s] software program. . .