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Sophie Scheidlinger · December 22, 2015
Meaningful Use: 6 things you need to know about the CMS Final Rule changes
After ongoing feedback from medical providers, professional medical associations, and Congress, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released changes to the Meaningful Use program on October 16, 2015. These changes take effect starting 2015 and continue through 2017. The intended aim of this... Continue
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Practice Fusion · December 7, 2015
Practice Fusion Highlights Flu Outbreaks and Vaccination Trends Across the U.S. and California
This week marks the start of National Influenza Vaccination Week, and the CDC estimates manufacturers will distribute more flu vaccines in the U.S. in 2015 than ever before – a projected 171 million to 179 million doses this year. Each year, millions of people get... Continue
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Practice Fusion · November 18, 2015
West Virginia leads the nation in lab and imaging connectivity
A Lab and Imaging Spotlight from Practice Fusion’s Researchers Continue
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Practice Fusion · November 12, 2015
Missing ICD-10 Codes? Do we have to wait until ICD-11?
The 141,747 ICD-10 codes consists of 71,924 procedure codes and 69,823 diagnosis codes. That’s 123,898 more codes than the ICD-9 code set. ICD-10 is able to add these codes with the addition of the 7th character in the ICD-10 codes. This seventh character is one... Continue
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Sophie Scheidlinger · November 5, 2015
Meaningful Use: Stage 1 is now Modified Stage 2
CMS has transitioned Stage 1 to Modified Stage 2 for the 2015 reporting period and beyond. Practices that are reporting for Stage 1 in 2015 will now report on all the Stage 2 objectives with special exclusions for measures that were not in Stage 1,... Continue