Doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals go to great lengths to be trained in diagnosis, treatment and care coordination. It takes years to master the knowledge and hone the skills required to carry out these professional duties.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule gives patients the right to receive a listing, known as an accounting of disclosure, of their information that is disclosed to others by their physician.

The compliance date of the HIPAA Final Rule – September 23, 2013 – is approaching. As a small practice or individual health care provider, there are multiple areas of the HIPAA Final Rule that can impact your business and the way you interact with patients....

Under the new Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), separate payment adjustments under the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), Value-Based Payment Modifier (VM), and the Medicare EHR Incentive Program will sunset December 31, 2018. MIPS payment adjustments will begin January 1, Please visit our MACRA /...

The Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) is a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reporting program that uses a combination of incentive payments and payment adjustments to promote reporting of quality information by eligible professionals (EPs). Any provider who sees Medicare Part B patients...