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2016: Looking Back, Looking Forward

Terry Ketchersid, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer - Integrated Care Group
January 4, 2016 1 Comment

The holidays are behind us and we are off to a great start in 2016. I am sure you have each enjoyed your lucky New Year’s Day meal and have made several resolutions, which hopefully will come to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: alternative payment models, American Society of Nephrology, APMs, Argonaut Project, CMMI, CMS, Diana Strubler, Dugan Maddux, ESCOs, ESRD, FHIR, ICD-10, MACRA, Meaningful Use, Meaningful Use Hardship Exception, Merit-Based Incentive Payment System, MIPS, Patient Access and Medicare Protection Act, Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR), Terry Ketchersid

Spanning the Great Divide: Translating Medicine and Business into a Common Language

Dugan Maddux, MD, FACP, Vice President, Kidney Disease Initiatives
September 28, 2015 Leave a Comment

Bridge crossing chasm

Welcome to the ICD Top 10 Countdown! ICD-10 is 2 days 15 hours and counting. Remember 15 years ago how everyone planned for Y2K, but 12:01 a.m. on January 1, 2000, came and we were all still here? … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: ACO, Brendan Saloner, Dugan Maddux, ICD-10, Jose Pagan, Katy Payne, patient-centered medical homes, PCMH, value-based payment models, whale songs

MIPS: Are You Ready?

Terry Ketchersid, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer - Integrated Care Group
July 20, 2015 Leave a Comment

We’re halfway through July and 72 days from the ICD-10 transition (yes, I am counting). The days are long and hot and some of us occasionally have trouble falling asleep at night. For those of you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, MIPS Tagged With: clinical practice improvement activities, ICD-10, MACRA, Meaningful Use, MIPS, national qualiity strategy domain, notice of proposed rule making, NPI, NPRM, Physician value-based payment modifier, Terry Ketchersid

ICD-10: CMS and AMA Announce a One-Year Grace Period

Diana Strubler, Senior Manager, Policy and Analytics, Acumen Physician Solutions
July 13, 2015 Leave a Comment

Life preserver in the sea

No, the title doesn’t mean ICD-10 is going to be delayed yet another year, although that would be believable considering the many delays and opponents of the changeover. Last week, however, CMS and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, ICD-10 Tagged With: AMA, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), CMS, Code-FLEX, Diana Strubler, ICD-10, ICD-9, MGMA, PQRS, Robert Tennant, Steven J. Stack

Making Sense of ICD-10

Dugan Maddux, MD, FACP, Vice President, Kidney Disease Initiatives
June 15, 2015 Leave a Comment

ICD-10-nephrology-codes

In last week’s blog about ICD-10 Terry mentioned the astonishing number of codes nephrologists will find on the 2728 form, which has 4 pages of nephrology-diagnosis alphabet soup. I find the mixture … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, ICD-10 Tagged With: AMA, CMS, Dugan Maddux, HHS, ICD, ICD-10, Linnaeus, Pulse Systems, Systema Naturae

ICD10: T-minus 114 days

Terry Ketchersid, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer - Integrated Care Group
June 8, 2015 Leave a Comment

Train steaming into a tunnel

Can you believe June is here? In just a few short weeks the year will be half over. Time does indeed fly when you are having fun. Speaking of having fun, how is your ICD-10 transition plan going? You … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, ICD-10 Tagged With: 2728 form, CMS, ESRD, ICD, ICD-10, World Health Organization

Regulation vs Innovation: The Battles of a Certified EHR in a Meaningful Use World

Diana Strubler, Senior Manager, Policy and Analytics, Acumen Physician Solutions
May 11, 2015 Leave a Comment

In the past five years, EHR technology vendors and providers have been struggling with the numerous regulatory requirements, from PQRS and eRx programs to Meaningful Use, value-based modifiers, ICD-10 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Electronic Health Records (EHRs), Future of EHRs, Meaningful Use, Nephrology EHRs Tagged With: CEHRT, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), CMS, Dr. John Halamka, EHR vendors, eRx, Harvard Medical, ICD-10, John Halamka, Meaningful Use, Meaningful Use Stage 3, MU requirements, MU Stage 3, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONCHIT), ONC, PQRS, value-based modifiers

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