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Practice Fusion · November 16, 2013
Updates to the HIPAA Privacy Rule: Accounting of Disclosure
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. Continue
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Contributing Writer · August 21, 2013
HIPAA compliance and your EHR for small Practice Providers
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.... Continue
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Practice Fusion · July 24, 2013
Meaningful Use penalties timeline
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 /... Continue
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Contributing Writer · July 22, 2013
Registration Now Open for PQRS Administrative Claims-Based Reporting
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... Continue
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Practice Fusion · May 16, 2013
Avoid the e-prescribe penalty
As a Medicare provider, you may be subject to federal penalties if you don’t send and report a certain number of e-prescriptions or qualify for an exclusion. You need to send 10 G-codes by June 30 in order to avoid a 2% Medicare deduction in... Continue