DeSalvo appears to be staying on, for now, at ONC | Vital Signs | The healthcare business blog from Modern Healthcare
DeSalvo appears to be staying on, for now, at ONC
By Joseph Conn
19 hours ago
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To paraphrase Mark Twain, news of Dr. Karen DeSalvo's departure from the top job at the Office of the National Coordinator has been somewhat exaggerated.
Last week, HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell appointed DeSalvo to become acting assistant secretary of health, effective immediately, to head up public health matters, including HHS' Ebola response efforts. Lisa Lewis, who served as the ONC's chief operating officer, was named as acting national coordinator.
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10/29/14
Pulse Systems Publishes Free eBook About ICD-10 #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT
Pulse Systems Publishes Free eBook About ICD-10
Pulse Systems Publishes Free eBook About ICD-10
Interactive Training Guide Helps Users Easily Learn About the Complexities Surrounding ICD-10 Implementation
October 29, 2014 09:00 ET | Source: Pulse Systems Inc
WICHITA, Kan., Oct. 29, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pulse Systems, Inc., an industry-leading provider of Electronic Health Record (EHR), Practice Management and Revenue Cycle Management solutions, announced today it has published a free eBook on The International Classification of Diseases, 10th Edition, Clinical Modification/Procedure Coding System, generally referred to as ICD-10. Pulse's interactive training guide breaks down coding set differences between ICD-9 and ICD-10 with easy-to-understand definitions of key terms, outlines changes in clinical documentation by specialty including clinical scenarios, and also offers an implementation guide to help physician practices identify the main areas that will be impacted by the application of the new ICD-10 coding structure.
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Pulse Systems Publishes Free eBook About ICD-10
Interactive Training Guide Helps Users Easily Learn About the Complexities Surrounding ICD-10 Implementation
October 29, 2014 09:00 ET | Source: Pulse Systems Inc
WICHITA, Kan., Oct. 29, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pulse Systems, Inc., an industry-leading provider of Electronic Health Record (EHR), Practice Management and Revenue Cycle Management solutions, announced today it has published a free eBook on The International Classification of Diseases, 10th Edition, Clinical Modification/Procedure Coding System, generally referred to as ICD-10. Pulse's interactive training guide breaks down coding set differences between ICD-9 and ICD-10 with easy-to-understand definitions of key terms, outlines changes in clinical documentation by specialty including clinical scenarios, and also offers an implementation guide to help physician practices identify the main areas that will be impacted by the application of the new ICD-10 coding structure.
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Nash Health Care's Ken Kilmer: Use ICD-10 testing to avoid chaos - #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT
Nash Health Care's Ken Kilmer: Use ICD-10 testing to avoid chaos - FierceHealthIT
Nash Health Care's Ken Kilmer: Use ICD-10 testing to avoid chaos
October 28, 2014 | By Dan Bowman
For Ken Kilmer, ICD-10 project manager at Rocky Mount, North Carolina-based Nash Health Care System, conducting a weeklong mock ICD-10 transition earlier this month was all about avoiding chaos in 2015.
"The goal for this plan was to make sure that we knew what to do the night of activation, so that even if in the next year we had some staff turnover and there were some new people coming in that needed to do these tasks, we had enough detail in our plan that they would know how to execute the work that needs to be done," Kilmer told FierceHealthIT. "It was a real opportunity for us to make sure we don't have a lot of discord when we make that transition for real a year from now."
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Nash Health Care's Ken Kilmer: Use ICD-10 testing to avoid chaos
October 28, 2014 | By Dan Bowman
For Ken Kilmer, ICD-10 project manager at Rocky Mount, North Carolina-based Nash Health Care System, conducting a weeklong mock ICD-10 transition earlier this month was all about avoiding chaos in 2015.
"The goal for this plan was to make sure that we knew what to do the night of activation, so that even if in the next year we had some staff turnover and there were some new people coming in that needed to do these tasks, we had enough detail in our plan that they would know how to execute the work that needs to be done," Kilmer told FierceHealthIT. "It was a real opportunity for us to make sure we don't have a lot of discord when we make that transition for real a year from now."
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Stakeholders at Odds Over DeSalvo's Departure, Future of Health IT #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT
Stakeholders at Odds Over DeSalvo's Departure, Future of Health IT - iHealthBeat
Stakeholders at Odds Over DeSalvo's Departure, Future of Health IT
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Health IT stakeholders appear split on how former National Coordinator for Health IT Karen DeSalvo's departure will affect future health IT initiatives, FierceHealthIT reports (Bowman, FierceHealthIT, 10/24).
ONC's Staffing Changes
Last week, DeSalvo announced that she would leave her post to serve as acting HHS assistant secretary for health, effective immediately, where she will lead HHS' Ebola response team.
Lisa Lewis, ONC's COO, has become acting National Coordinator for Health IT, and DeSalvo will continue to support ONC's work in her new role.
Meanwhile, Deputy National Coordinator for Health IT Jacob Reider also announced he would be leaving ONC in late November, after three years at the office.
DeSalvo and Reider's departures add to a growing list of top ONC officials who have left the agency in recent months.
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Stakeholders at Odds Over DeSalvo's Departure, Future of Health IT
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Health IT stakeholders appear split on how former National Coordinator for Health IT Karen DeSalvo's departure will affect future health IT initiatives, FierceHealthIT reports (Bowman, FierceHealthIT, 10/24).
ONC's Staffing Changes
Last week, DeSalvo announced that she would leave her post to serve as acting HHS assistant secretary for health, effective immediately, where she will lead HHS' Ebola response team.
Lisa Lewis, ONC's COO, has become acting National Coordinator for Health IT, and DeSalvo will continue to support ONC's work in her new role.
Meanwhile, Deputy National Coordinator for Health IT Jacob Reider also announced he would be leaving ONC in late November, after three years at the office.
DeSalvo and Reider's departures add to a growing list of top ONC officials who have left the agency in recent months.
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CodingCon The 7th Annual Med Coding, Billing and Reimb Conf #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT
CodingCon – The 7th Annual Medical Coding, Billing and Reimbursement National Conference
CodingCon – The 7th Annual Medical Coding, Billing and Reimbursement National Conference
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Orlando, Florida (PRWEB) October 28, 2014
The Coding Institute, LLC is hosting "CodingCon 2014: 7th Annual Medical Coding, Billing and Reimbursement National Conference" in Orlando, Florida on December 5-7, 2014. The CodingCon is organized to educate coders, billers, and practice managers on guidelines, updates, best practices, and new changes implemented each year. Over the years, this event has delivered important and updated specialty training in coding, billing, practice management, revenue cycle management auditing, and compliance for nine specialty tracks.
The planned sessions aim at dealing with the remarkable changes in the healthcare industry and resolving the anticipated coding and billing confusions in 2015. There will be practical specialty sessions with recommendations on latest coding, reimbursement and compliance pitfalls, all at a wonderful venue with great food and the Disneyland to unwind! Gustillo or Salter-Harris classification and laparoscopic or robotic surgery, the veteran coding specialists from around the country will have it all covered.
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CodingCon – The 7th Annual Medical Coding, Billing and Reimbursement National Conference
PR Web
Orlando, Florida (PRWEB) October 28, 2014
The Coding Institute, LLC is hosting "CodingCon 2014: 7th Annual Medical Coding, Billing and Reimbursement National Conference" in Orlando, Florida on December 5-7, 2014. The CodingCon is organized to educate coders, billers, and practice managers on guidelines, updates, best practices, and new changes implemented each year. Over the years, this event has delivered important and updated specialty training in coding, billing, practice management, revenue cycle management auditing, and compliance for nine specialty tracks.
The planned sessions aim at dealing with the remarkable changes in the healthcare industry and resolving the anticipated coding and billing confusions in 2015. There will be practical specialty sessions with recommendations on latest coding, reimbursement and compliance pitfalls, all at a wonderful venue with great food and the Disneyland to unwind! Gustillo or Salter-Harris classification and laparoscopic or robotic surgery, the veteran coding specialists from around the country will have it all covered.
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Communication Crucial to ICD-10 Success | #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT
Communication Crucial to ICD-10 Success | Physicians Practice
Communication Crucial to ICD-10 Success
October 28, 2014 | MGMA 2014
By Keith L. Martin
How do you get 104 physicians of various specialties in more than 50 offices to acknowledge, understand, and educate themselves about the coming ICD-10 transition? The key is communication, according to , director of practice management, for South Florida Medicine.
Tiedeman was a co-presenter for "Best Practices for ICD-10 Success" at the 2014 Medical Group Management Association Annual Conference on Tues., Oct. 28, with Albert Santalo, chairman, president, and CEO of CareCloud, a cloud-based software solutions firm. South Florida Medicine, a large multi-specialty group practice headquartered in Wellington, Fla., includes physicians in urology, oncology, surgery, surgical oncology, thoracic surgery, and radiation.
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Communication Crucial to ICD-10 Success
October 28, 2014 | MGMA 2014
By Keith L. Martin
How do you get 104 physicians of various specialties in more than 50 offices to acknowledge, understand, and educate themselves about the coming ICD-10 transition? The key is communication, according to , director of practice management, for South Florida Medicine.
Tiedeman was a co-presenter for "Best Practices for ICD-10 Success" at the 2014 Medical Group Management Association Annual Conference on Tues., Oct. 28, with Albert Santalo, chairman, president, and CEO of CareCloud, a cloud-based software solutions firm. South Florida Medicine, a large multi-specialty group practice headquartered in Wellington, Fla., includes physicians in urology, oncology, surgery, surgical oncology, thoracic surgery, and radiation.
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Defining ICD-10 “readiness” | #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT
Defining ICD-10 “readiness” | Managed Healthcare Executive
Defining ICD-10 “readiness”
How payers and providers should prepare for the transition
October 27, 2014 By Ryan McDermitt
When Congress voted in March to push back the ICD-10 deadline to at least Oct. 1, 2015, emotions were mixed from payers and providers across the industry. With the 2014 deadline in mind, a WEDI survey in late 2013 revealed that 80% of providers would not be ready to begin testing efforts before the deadline. Also, nearly 40 percent of payer respondents said they’d failed to complete their impact assessments. Now with the delay pushed back to 2015, payers and providers need to take advantage of this extra time, instead of relaxing their compliance efforts and staging another mad scramble next year.
Let’s examine healthcare’s past readiness for this transition to see what steps to take for 2015. The payer side of the industry was 12 to 24 months ahead of the provider side in engagement, planning and remediation for ICD-10. Additionally, the majority of payers were on track for ICD-10 remediation when the second delay was announced. In late January 2014 at the Edifecs Healthcare Mandate Summit, evidence was seen that providers – particularly larger integrated care-delivery organizations – were beginning to close the readiness gap. As the delay was announced, payers were starting to perform collaborative testing with forward-thinking trading partners, including providers. In fact, some providers were also requesting testing with payers.
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Defining ICD-10 “readiness”
How payers and providers should prepare for the transition
October 27, 2014 By Ryan McDermitt
When Congress voted in March to push back the ICD-10 deadline to at least Oct. 1, 2015, emotions were mixed from payers and providers across the industry. With the 2014 deadline in mind, a WEDI survey in late 2013 revealed that 80% of providers would not be ready to begin testing efforts before the deadline. Also, nearly 40 percent of payer respondents said they’d failed to complete their impact assessments. Now with the delay pushed back to 2015, payers and providers need to take advantage of this extra time, instead of relaxing their compliance efforts and staging another mad scramble next year.
Let’s examine healthcare’s past readiness for this transition to see what steps to take for 2015. The payer side of the industry was 12 to 24 months ahead of the provider side in engagement, planning and remediation for ICD-10. Additionally, the majority of payers were on track for ICD-10 remediation when the second delay was announced. In late January 2014 at the Edifecs Healthcare Mandate Summit, evidence was seen that providers – particularly larger integrated care-delivery organizations – were beginning to close the readiness gap. As the delay was announced, payers were starting to perform collaborative testing with forward-thinking trading partners, including providers. In fact, some providers were also requesting testing with payers.
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The Rx for ICD-10 and the Threat of Inaccurate Documentation #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT
The Rx for ICD-10 and the Threat of Inaccurate Documentation | The Health Care Blog
With ICD-10 still looming and value-based payments and penalties on the horizon, U.S. hospitals need strategies to tackle the “triple threat” of financial, operational and clinical challenges these transitions present. Summit Health implemented an end-to-end clinical documentation improvement process to address all three main challenges holistically.
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New York City, CSC Sued for Tens of Millions in Medicaid Fraud #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT
New York City, CSC Sued for Tens of Millions in Medicaid Fraud | RevCycleIntelligence.com
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New York City and a contracting company are accused of a massive Medicaid fraud scheme relying on automated software.
Federal prosecutors are suing New York City and Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) for tens of millions of dollars in alleged Medicaid fraud stemming from a five-year effort to bilk the agency out of reimbursements for young children who benefited from the program. The office of Preet Bharara, the US District Attorney for the region covering the city, has accused CSC and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene of switching diagnosis codes, falsifying claims, and circumventing reimbursement policies in order to collect unauthorized funds.
“As alleged, CSC and the City created computer programs that systematically, and fraudulently, altered billing data in order to get paid by Medicaid as quickly as possible and as much as possible,” Bharara said in a public statement. “Billing frauds like those alleged undermine the integrity of public healthcare programs like Medicaid. All public healthcare program participants, whether they are healthcare providers, localities like the City, or contractors like CSC, should understand that they must comply with the applicable billing rules.”
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New CAREinnoLab Research Reveals Physicians' Views about ICD-10 #ICD10 #ICDRemediator #ICD10Matters #HealthIT
New CAREinnoLab Research Reveals Physicians' Views about ICD-10 - Press Release - Digital Journal
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New CAREinnoLab Research Reveals Physicians' Views about ICD-10
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