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Interoperability Challenges—and Potential Solutions

Eddie Hedrick, Vice President, Information Technology Group
November 6, 2017 Leave a Comment

interoperability challenges are a puzzle

In a previous post from a few weeks ago, I highlighted a gap in the nation’s ability to achieve real interoperability despite tremendous advances in the development and adoption of transactional … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Interoperability Tagged With: 21st Century Cures Act, Carequality, CLIFS, CMS, CommonWell Health Alliance, Epic, GAO, HIE, HIPAA, Interoperability, MACRA, Meaningful Use, national patient identifier, NPI, ONC, The Sequoia Project, TPO

Resource Use: The Murky Waters of MIPS

Terry Ketchersid, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer - Integrated Care Group
June 20, 2016 1 Comment

Sea change ahead

Honestly, I was not going to do this to you. With the exception of Dugan Maddux’s recent post, the Acumen blog has been drowning in the ocean of MACRA for what seems like months now. But given that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, MACRA, VM Tagged With: clinical practice improvement, CMS, Diana Strubler, Dugan Maddux, E&M codes, MACRA, Medicare, medicare spending per beneficiary (MSPB), MIPS, MSPB, MU, NPI, Part A & B, PQRS, QRUR, resource use, Terry Ketchersid, Value-based Paymen Modifier (VM)

QRUR & the VM: It’s Worth a Look

Terry Ketchersid, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer - Integrated Care Group
November 23, 2015 2 Comments

As November comes to a close, there’s no better time to begin thinking about all of those year-end administrative tasks. Diana got us off to a great start last week with a very handy meaningful use … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, QRUR, VM Tagged With: alternative payment models, APMs, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), CMS, cost composite score, EDIM, enterprise identity data management (EIDM) account, IACS, medicare spending per beneficiary (MSPB), MSPB, NPI, physician value-based payment modifier (VM), PQRS, QRUR, Quality and Resource Use Report (QRUR), Terry Ketchersid, VM

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

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