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Time Ticks Down on ICD-10, but Survey Finds a Lack of Progress

By Joseph Goedert for HealthData Management A new survey from the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange on ICD-10 preparations-the seventh survey since late 2009-finds a disturbing lack of industry progress during the past year. WEDI in February 2013 surveyed 974 industry participants, comprising 87 vendors, 109 health plans and 778 providers, and compared results with…

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51 Statistics on Physician Salaries vs. Hospital Revenue Generated

By Bob Herman for Becker’s Hospital Review Although primary care physicians bring in more net revenue to the average hospital, their compensation still lags behind those in several medical and surgical specialties. Last week, physician consulting firm Merritt Hawkins released its “2013 Physician Inpatient/Outpatient Revenue Survey.” Merritt Hawkins received responses from 102 hospital and health…

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Q&A: AHIMA CEO says checkpoints, teamwork key to ICD-10 success

By Jennifer Bresnick for EHR Intelligence As CEO of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), Lynne Thomas Gordon, MBA, RHIA, FACHE, has been charged with the task of overseeing the 70,000-strong organization during its efforts to help providers gear up for ICD-10 implementation. Thomas Gordon sat down with EHRintelligence to talk about some of…

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CMS: No Further Delays in ICD-10-CM/PCS Implementation

Article by Chris Dimick, Editor-in-Chief at the Journal of AHIMA. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on February 27, 2013 and is republished here with permission. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will maintain their commitment to the current ICD-10-CM/PCS compliance date of October 1, 2014, according to…

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Proposed HIPAA privacy rule on gun background checks open for comments

By David Codrea for examiner.com An advance notice of proposed rulemaking by the Office for Civil Rights Department of the Department of Health and Human Services titled “HIPAA Privacy Rule and the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS)” was published yesterday in the Federal Register. Drafted following Executive Actions signed by President Barack Obama…

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