http://conversionscientist.com/effective-copy/5-elements-of-persuasive-writing-that-make-your-posts-takeoff/
really good points on how to write for marketing
3/22/15
Margin
this is a truly thought provoking piece. take the time, it is worth it. https://medium.com/@mariepoulin/the-big-mistake-nearly-every-designer-makes-aff96b43172c
12/12/14
Now that the fight is over, it is time to get serious about ICD10 visit www.icdremediator.com for tools #ICD10
The fight is over, we all win!!!
ICD-10 is happening, and it is happening on 10/1/2014. If you are not ready, you wont get paid for procedures. Can you say FINANCIAL IMPACT!
Your EMR may be ready, but is the rest of your organization? Have you checked all your workflows? Have you hand remediated all the contracts?
I am guessing the answer is no, and we are here to help.
ICD Remediator can ease your struggle for much less than you think.
We provide tools, education, and resources. Give us a chance, you wont be sorry.
Email us at sales@icdremediator.com or visit www.icdremediator.com
ICD-10 is happening, and it is happening on 10/1/2014. If you are not ready, you wont get paid for procedures. Can you say FINANCIAL IMPACT!
Your EMR may be ready, but is the rest of your organization? Have you checked all your workflows? Have you hand remediated all the contracts?
I am guessing the answer is no, and we are here to help.
ICD Remediator can ease your struggle for much less than you think.
We provide tools, education, and resources. Give us a chance, you wont be sorry.
Email us at sales@icdremediator.com or visit www.icdremediator.com
12/10/14
Hospital Associations Push to Keep ICD-10 on Schedule #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT
Hospital Associations Push to Keep ICD-10 on Schedule - ACA International
Dec 09, 2014
Congress could vote on another delay in the implementation of the updated medical coding system.
Leading U.S. hospital associations have submitted a letter to Congress strongly opposing any further delays in the implementation of the ICD-10 medical coding system scheduled for Oct. 15, 2015.
ICD-10 is replacing ICD-9 as the system to report medical diagnoses and inpatient procedures. All HIPAA-covered entities will be required to make the transition
Implementation of ICD-10 has been delayed twice, according to a HealthLeaders Media article. It was announced in 2009 and initially scheduled to start in 2013.
The system was then scheduled to take effect on Oct. 1, 2014, but was delayed by Congress as part of a bill that also delayed Medicare reimbursement cuts, according to the article.
Click the link above for access to the article
#ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT
Get Remediator to assist in your readiness for the ICD-10 switchover www.icdremediator.com
Dec 09, 2014
Congress could vote on another delay in the implementation of the updated medical coding system.
Leading U.S. hospital associations have submitted a letter to Congress strongly opposing any further delays in the implementation of the ICD-10 medical coding system scheduled for Oct. 15, 2015.
ICD-10 is replacing ICD-9 as the system to report medical diagnoses and inpatient procedures. All HIPAA-covered entities will be required to make the transition
Implementation of ICD-10 has been delayed twice, according to a HealthLeaders Media article. It was announced in 2009 and initially scheduled to start in 2013.
The system was then scheduled to take effect on Oct. 1, 2014, but was delayed by Congress as part of a bill that also delayed Medicare reimbursement cuts, according to the article.
Click the link above for access to the article
#ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT
Get Remediator to assist in your readiness for the ICD-10 switchover www.icdremediator.com
ICD-10 delay appears DOA in Congress this year #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT
Woo-Hoo
ICD-10 delay appears DOA in Congress this year - Modern HealthcareVital Signs | The healthcare business blog from Modern Healthcare
By Joseph Conn and Paul Demko | December 8, 2014
A proposal to delay implementation of ICD-10 diagnostic and procedure codes by an additional two years appears to be going nowhere in the current lame duck session of Congress.
“That's not going to happen,” said a veteran healthcare consultant who tracks the issue closely, speaking on background. “The reports of them ever getting traction were overrated.”
The Texas Medical Association has been lobbying for the two-year delay. The nation's largest state medical society for physicians, with 48,000 members, wants to push back the adoption date for the oft-delayed change to 2017.
Click the link above for access to the article
#ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT
Get Remediator to assist in your readiness for the ICD-10 switchover www.icdremediator.com
ICD-10 delay appears DOA in Congress this year - Modern HealthcareVital Signs | The healthcare business blog from Modern Healthcare
By Joseph Conn and Paul Demko | December 8, 2014
A proposal to delay implementation of ICD-10 diagnostic and procedure codes by an additional two years appears to be going nowhere in the current lame duck session of Congress.
“That's not going to happen,” said a veteran healthcare consultant who tracks the issue closely, speaking on background. “The reports of them ever getting traction were overrated.”
The Texas Medical Association has been lobbying for the two-year delay. The nation's largest state medical society for physicians, with 48,000 members, wants to push back the adoption date for the oft-delayed change to 2017.
Click the link above for access to the article
#ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT
Get Remediator to assist in your readiness for the ICD-10 switchover www.icdremediator.com
ICD-10: One CMIO Questions Its Value #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT
ICD-10: One CMIO Questions Its Value
December 9, 2014
by Rajiv Leventhal
During “roundtable” discussion, experts discuss what lies ahead in regards to ICD-10
ICD-10: One CMIO Questions Its Value Jed Rosen, M.D., CMIO, Carroll Hospital
Healthcare providers and physician groups are spending hundreds of hours and millions of dollars in preparation for the switch from ICD-9 to ICD-10. For those smaller medical practices and physician groups that don’t have the means to hire consultants and spend a vast amount of resources to manage the changeover, they are turning to their associations for help.
Undoubtedly, it’s a very hot topic among healthcare associations as their members navigate the complex process in anticipation of the current Oct. 1, 2015 implementation deadline. The Healthcare Billing & Management Association (HBMA), for one, is a nonprofit trade association dedicated to healthcare revenue cycle management, and is working with its members—medical billing companies— to develop best practices and contribute meaningful dialogue in preparing for ICD-10.
HBMA’s most recent ICD-10 readiness survey, taken this fall, revealed that its members are getting increasingly confident in their system’s capability to handle both ICD-9 and ICD-10 concurrently. On the other hand, 23 percent of respondents reported that system updates are not complete, and 37 percent of those that have not completed updates have no scheduled time for completion. As a result, internal testing is still lagging, the survey found.
Click the link above for access to the article
#ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT
Get Remediator to assist in your readiness for the ICD-10 switchover www.icdremediator.com
December 9, 2014
by Rajiv Leventhal
During “roundtable” discussion, experts discuss what lies ahead in regards to ICD-10
ICD-10: One CMIO Questions Its Value Jed Rosen, M.D., CMIO, Carroll Hospital
Healthcare providers and physician groups are spending hundreds of hours and millions of dollars in preparation for the switch from ICD-9 to ICD-10. For those smaller medical practices and physician groups that don’t have the means to hire consultants and spend a vast amount of resources to manage the changeover, they are turning to their associations for help.
Undoubtedly, it’s a very hot topic among healthcare associations as their members navigate the complex process in anticipation of the current Oct. 1, 2015 implementation deadline. The Healthcare Billing & Management Association (HBMA), for one, is a nonprofit trade association dedicated to healthcare revenue cycle management, and is working with its members—medical billing companies— to develop best practices and contribute meaningful dialogue in preparing for ICD-10.
HBMA’s most recent ICD-10 readiness survey, taken this fall, revealed that its members are getting increasingly confident in their system’s capability to handle both ICD-9 and ICD-10 concurrently. On the other hand, 23 percent of respondents reported that system updates are not complete, and 37 percent of those that have not completed updates have no scheduled time for completion. As a result, internal testing is still lagging, the survey found.
Click the link above for access to the article
#ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT
Get Remediator to assist in your readiness for the ICD-10 switchover www.icdremediator.com
CMS,Testing Week Highlights Lingering ICD-10 Issues #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT
There are still issues, now that it looks like ICD-10 is here to stay, tools are needed, get the best with www.icdremediator.com
CMS Acknowledgement Testing Week Highlights Lingering ICD-10 Issues
Written by Mark Spivey | Monday, 08 December 2014 00:00
Despite a decline in participation and some lingering issues still affecting providers, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Provider Billing Group Director Diane Kovach told Talk-Ten-Tuesday listeners last week that she was pleased with the results from the second of four scheduled acknowledgement testing weeks being planned and coordinated by the agency.
“Overall,” Kovach said, “the testing went really well.”
Only two things were being scrutinized during the testing week that recently ended prior to the Thanksgiving holiday: the ability of providers to submit claims containing ICD-10 codes to CMS, and the ability of CMS to accept those codes, Kovach explained.
“These claims are not fully adjudicated in this testing,” she said. “It’s really just what we like to call ‘getting the claim in the door.’”
The first CMS Acknowledgement Testing Week was held in March. Participation in the most recent edition was “a little lower,” Kovach conceded, but there were two factors likely playing a factor in that area: First, the most recent ICD-10 delay, which “removed some of the sense of urgency” to get testing done in an expedient manner, she said, and second, a public stance regarding testing currently being taken by CMS.
Click the link above for access to the article
#ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT
Get Remediator to assist in your readiness for the ICD-10 switchover www.icdremediator.com
CMS Acknowledgement Testing Week Highlights Lingering ICD-10 Issues
Written by Mark Spivey | Monday, 08 December 2014 00:00
Despite a decline in participation and some lingering issues still affecting providers, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Provider Billing Group Director Diane Kovach told Talk-Ten-Tuesday listeners last week that she was pleased with the results from the second of four scheduled acknowledgement testing weeks being planned and coordinated by the agency.
“Overall,” Kovach said, “the testing went really well.”
Only two things were being scrutinized during the testing week that recently ended prior to the Thanksgiving holiday: the ability of providers to submit claims containing ICD-10 codes to CMS, and the ability of CMS to accept those codes, Kovach explained.
“These claims are not fully adjudicated in this testing,” she said. “It’s really just what we like to call ‘getting the claim in the door.’”
The first CMS Acknowledgement Testing Week was held in March. Participation in the most recent edition was “a little lower,” Kovach conceded, but there were two factors likely playing a factor in that area: First, the most recent ICD-10 delay, which “removed some of the sense of urgency” to get testing done in an expedient manner, she said, and second, a public stance regarding testing currently being taken by CMS.
Click the link above for access to the article
#ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT
Get Remediator to assist in your readiness for the ICD-10 switchover www.icdremediator.com
Hospitals to Congress: Do not Delay ICD-10 #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT
Hospitals to Congress: Don’t Delay ICD-10
John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, December 9, 2014
Several hospital associations, characterizing the twice-postponed implementation of the ICD-10 diagnostic coding set as "disruptive and costly," are urging House and Senate leaders to avoid any further delays.
The nation's leading hospital associations want the lame duck Congress to avoid further delays of the Oct. 1, 2015 implementation date for the ICD-10 diagnostic coding set.
Click the link above for access to the article
#ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT
Get Remediator to assist in your readiness for the ICD-10 switchover www.icdremediator.com
John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, December 9, 2014
Several hospital associations, characterizing the twice-postponed implementation of the ICD-10 diagnostic coding set as "disruptive and costly," are urging House and Senate leaders to avoid any further delays.
The nation's leading hospital associations want the lame duck Congress to avoid further delays of the Oct. 1, 2015 implementation date for the ICD-10 diagnostic coding set.
Click the link above for access to the article
#ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT
Get Remediator to assist in your readiness for the ICD-10 switchover www.icdremediator.com
'Cromnibus' Does Not Include ICD-10 #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT
Dodged that one, I am sure there will be a few more tries
New Federal Spending Package Has Health IT Implications - iHealthBeat
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
A continuing resolution omnibus spending bill, or "cromnibus," to fund most of the federal government will not affect ICD-10 or the meaningful use program, but it does include several health IT provisions, Politico's "Morning eHealth" reports (Gold, "Morning eHealth,' Politico, 12/10).
Overall, the 1,603-page spending bill includes $1.1 trillion to fund all federal government agencies except for the Department of Homeland Security through September 2015 (AP/Washington Times, 12/10).
'Cromnibus' Does Not Include ICD-10, Meaningful Use Language
According to Health Data Management, the spending bill does not contain provisions to delay the ICD-10 compliance date or adjust the meaningful use incentive reporting period for 2015, as advocated by some groups (Goedert, Health Data Management, 12/10).
U.S. health care organizations are working to transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 code sets to accommodate codes for new diseases and procedures by Oct. 1, 2015.
In a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), the Medical Society of the State of New York, the Texas Medical Association and the National Physicians' Council for Healthcare Policy asked to delay the ICD-10 implementation until October 2017.
The groups urged Boehner to work with House Rules Committee Chair Pete Sessions (R-Texas) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Fred Upton (R-Mich.) "to have this [delay] added to a must-pass piece of legislation during the upcoming Lame Duck Session in 2014."
According to sources familiar with lawmakers' discussions, Sessions discussed the possibility of including an ICD-10 provision in the budget agreement with House leadership.
Meanwhile, several prominent groups -- including the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives -- have been pushing CMS and lawmakers to adjust the 2015 meaningful use reporting period from a full year to 90 days.
Under the 2009 economic stimulus package, providers who demonstrate meaningful use of certified electronic health records can qualify for Medicaid and Medicare incentive payments (iHealthBeat, 12/9).
Click the link above for access to the article
#ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT
Get Remediator to assist in your readiness for the ICD-10 switchover www.icdremediator.com
New Federal Spending Package Has Health IT Implications - iHealthBeat
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
A continuing resolution omnibus spending bill, or "cromnibus," to fund most of the federal government will not affect ICD-10 or the meaningful use program, but it does include several health IT provisions, Politico's "Morning eHealth" reports (Gold, "Morning eHealth,' Politico, 12/10).
Overall, the 1,603-page spending bill includes $1.1 trillion to fund all federal government agencies except for the Department of Homeland Security through September 2015 (AP/Washington Times, 12/10).
'Cromnibus' Does Not Include ICD-10, Meaningful Use Language
According to Health Data Management, the spending bill does not contain provisions to delay the ICD-10 compliance date or adjust the meaningful use incentive reporting period for 2015, as advocated by some groups (Goedert, Health Data Management, 12/10).
U.S. health care organizations are working to transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 code sets to accommodate codes for new diseases and procedures by Oct. 1, 2015.
In a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), the Medical Society of the State of New York, the Texas Medical Association and the National Physicians' Council for Healthcare Policy asked to delay the ICD-10 implementation until October 2017.
The groups urged Boehner to work with House Rules Committee Chair Pete Sessions (R-Texas) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Fred Upton (R-Mich.) "to have this [delay] added to a must-pass piece of legislation during the upcoming Lame Duck Session in 2014."
According to sources familiar with lawmakers' discussions, Sessions discussed the possibility of including an ICD-10 provision in the budget agreement with House leadership.
Meanwhile, several prominent groups -- including the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives -- have been pushing CMS and lawmakers to adjust the 2015 meaningful use reporting period from a full year to 90 days.
Under the 2009 economic stimulus package, providers who demonstrate meaningful use of certified electronic health records can qualify for Medicaid and Medicare incentive payments (iHealthBeat, 12/9).
Click the link above for access to the article
#ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT
Get Remediator to assist in your readiness for the ICD-10 switchover www.icdremediator.com
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