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To cut red tape, please members and lower costs, EmblemHealth is cutting the number of medical procedures in half for which it will require prior authorization.January 8
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The American Medical Association has released a checklist and online resources meant to assist physician practices with new Medicare office visit coding and documentation requirements.December 30
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Clinical documentation improvement will become even more responsible for the hospital’s sustainability in the years ahead.December 27
Co-founder and CEOArtifact Health
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The Department of Veterans Affairs has added a number of online resources to improve access to patient statements as well as compare the performance of VA medical facilities with non-VA facilities.December 22
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The federal government has levied an $85,000 fine against Krounda Medical, saying the organization didn’t fulfill a patient’s request to forward medical records in electronic format to a third party.December 13
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Amazon Web Services is rolling out an electronic health record-supported machine learning transcription service that uses speech recognition applications to ease physician documentation.December 9
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An automated clinical documentation system is being tested to better facilitate handoffs of patients brought to the emergency department via ambulance.December 2
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The American Medical Association has adopted a policy supporting the voluntary inclusion of a transgender patient’s preferred name and clinically relevant sex-specific anatomy in electronic health records.November 19
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Friday issued a final rule reducing clinician burden regarding billing and coding requirements for evaluation and management services.November 4
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It’s been two years since the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services launched an effort to ensure providers spend less time on administrative tasks and more time with patients. Now, CMS contends it has achieved unprecedented success in that aim.October 29
