The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has identified four quality measures impacted by the Oct. 1 update to the ICD-10-CM code set. Providers submitting performance data under the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) should limit data collection to the first nine months (Jan. 1 – Oct. 1) of the performance period for these […]
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Data breach may have affected over 500,000 patients
LifeBridge Health in Baltimore notified more than 500K patients last week. They were informed that their personal information may have been compromised during a security breach in 2016 (around September). Becker’s Hospital Review was told on May 23rd that on March 18th, malware was discovered on the server that hosts ePHI data for the affiliated physician’s group and the registration and billing systems.
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RCS-1: What?s changing and how will you be affected? Part 2
RCS-1: What’s changing and how will you be affected? Part 1
CMS to grant exceptions to providers affected by Hurricane Irma
How Has ACA Affected AAPC Members?
Editors’ Note: Data provided for this story was researched and compiled by David Blackmer, MSC. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) continues to be the law of the land, so we asked AAPC members how their practices have changed since Obamacare was enacted. In a recent survey, we found about half our members’ […]
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