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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and healthcare nonprofit organization Kaiser Permanente recently announced a pilot program designed to exchange EHR information using the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) created by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). This initial pilot is planned to begin in mid-December 2009. “Utilizing the NHIN’s standards and network will allow [...] Outsourced Medical Billing has a remarkable potential to increase your collection rates by forty percent or more. However, how do they do it? Good metrics are the key to effectiveness of a medical billing service. Like any high performing business, they measure their performance with dependable metrics. Collecting medical bills is an onerous task. The billing [...] By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers returning next week to work on major healthcare legislation need to focus on insurance market reforms, consumer rebates and other measures that will curb soaring costs over time, economic and health experts said on Tuesday. The group of academics outlined dozens of changes in their report, from restructuring payments [...] By Nina Youngstrom, Managing Editor, Payment errors should be reduced significantly under ICD-10 diagnosis and procedure codes, which must be implemented by Oct. 1, 2013. Experts say that improvements over ICD-9 — including less ambiguity, more specificity, and standardized terminology and combination codes— will help hospitals improve their compliance. But at the same [...] |
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