August 2015

ICD-10 hops Congressional hurdle

By Tom Sullivan, Editor-in-Chief, for Healthcare IT News Congress will have just 17 week days to pass legislation killing the conversion. Is ICD-10 finally in the clear? Health IT professionals and policy wonks sleeping with one eye open while watching Capitol Hill for clues about ICD-10’s fate can rest easy – at least for now.…

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CFO Gets Prison Time for HITECH Fraud

By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee for Healthcare Info Security Hospital Executive Falsified ‘Meaningful Use’ Attestation A former Texas hospital CFO has been sentenced to 23 months in federal prison for submitting false documents so a medical center could receive payments under the HITECH Act electronic health records financial incentive program. In addition to his prison sentence,…

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Half Of Nation’s Hospitals Fail Again To Escape Medicare’s Readmission Penalties

By Jordan Rau for Kaiser Health News Once again, the majority of the nation’s hospitals are being penalized by Medicare for having patients frequently return within a month of discharge — this time losing a combined $420 million, government records show. In the fourth year of federal readmission penalties, 2,592 hospitals will receive lower payments…

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Washington Debrief: Flex-IT Bill Makes Series of Meaningful Use Program Changes

By Leslie Kriegstein, Interim Vice President of Public Policy, CHIME for Healthcare Informatics Congressional Affairs Flex-IT Bill Makes Series of Meaningful Use Program Changes Key Takeaway: Congresswoman Renee Ellmers (R-NC-02) introduced legislation last week that makes a series of substantial improvements to the Meaningful Use Program, including a delay in the release Stage 3 rules.…

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