ICD and DSM Coding Compliance Will Be Important In 2020 and Beyond

On October 1, the grace period for allowing providers to submit “less-than specific” codes ran out. If you recall, when ICD-10-CM went live in 2015, the federal government gave providers…

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6 Strategies for Physicians to Successfully Navigate MIPS

CMS' Medicare Access & CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 replaced the current Meaningful Use, Physician Quality Reporting System and Value-Based Payment Modifier this year. Under MACRA, physicians can participate in…

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Benefits of Medicaid EHR incentive program

Meaningful use expert Jim Tate has written that the Medicaid EHR incentive program reminds him of "zero entry" swimming pools: very easy to get into, with almost no barriers. Given…

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