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...

A Lab and Imaging Spotlight from Practice Fusion’s Researchers

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...

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,...

CMS Final Rule states that all providers will attest for a 90-day reporting period in 2015 regardless of what stage or year they were previously attesting for.