By posting online a list of all health care providers who have national provider identifiers (NPIs), CMS has addressed one of the unresolved issues that forced it to delay the deadline for NPI implementation by one year (”CMS blinks,” InfoTech Bulletin, April 13, 2007). continues…
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Since January 2006, physicians who prescribe electronically for Medicare patients have been required to use the same standard for sending scripts online to pharmacies that SureScripts uses in its electronic network. But despite the spread of pharmacy interoperability, the majority of e-prescribing doctors still computer-fax their scripts to pharmacies. continues…
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Minnesota has become the first state to require that all health-care providers and all payers file claims electronically. Starting in 2009, every physician office in Minnesota, including the smallest ones, will have a choice of using a practice management system, hiring a billing service, or filing claims on the Web portals now offered by the state Medicaid agency and some private payers. They’ll also have to request eligibility verification online. continues…
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced today that all participating physician groups improved the clinical management of diabetes patients in the first year of the three-year Medicare Physician Group Practice (PGP) Demonstration. Only two, however, the University of Michigan Faculty Practice and the Marshfield Clinic in Wisconsin, reached the levels needed to trigger bonus payments.
A New York Times report on this announcements poses the question of how these results, which reward larger organizations, can be translated to P4P programs for individual doctors in small practices.
CMS announcement
Shift in Health-Cost Focus Is Said to Show Promise [via The New York Times]
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