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From Healthcare IT News CHICAGO – AHIMA has said it before, and it is saying it again. Delaying ICD-10 deadlines is not a good idea. AHIMA filed a comment letter Wednesday with the Department of Health and Human Services’ leaders…
From Healthcare IT News ANA ARBOR, MI – The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) on Wednesday submitted comments on ICD-10 proposed rulemaking to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. CHIME urged HHS to remain committed to ICD-10,…
From Modern Healthcare Last week, the American Medical Association sent a letter to acting CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner asking the federal government to further delay the compliance date for the transition to ICD-10 code sets to Oct. 1, 2015, Modern…
Written for FierceHealthIT The American Hospital Association (AHA) and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), two of the biggest guns in the health IT industry, have formally expressed significant doubts about both the timing and the content of…
By Jay Hancock for Kaiser Health News Like hospitals and doctors everywhere, Banner Health fights a daily battle to get paid by insurance companies and government agencies for the care it delivers. So the hospital system hired a company called…
By Connie S. Tohara for Computerworld When October 1, 2014 arrives, there are a number of potential disasters that await if we’re not fully prepared for the new clinical coding classification, ICD-10. Federal regulators have proposed a Fall 2014 deadline…
Originally posted on Healthcare Informatics The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has made it clear that it’s not a huge supporter of the decision from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to delay the date in…
By Margaret Dick Tocknell, for HealthLeaders Media If the Affordable Care Act is fully or partially nullified by the US Supreme Court, for-profit hospital operators will face a credit-negative situation as costs increase and profit margins shrink, according to a…
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposes clinical reporting standards that physicians and hospitals will use to qualify for Stage 2 Meaningful Use bonus payments. By Neil Versel, InformationWeek A month after publishing proposed rules for Stage 2 of the…
By Carle Natale for Healthcare IT News ICD-10 implementation is a problem that affects how physicians will practice medicine. But just how to you persuade them that they need to get involved in the training and planning now? The first…