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By Emily Rappleye for Becker’s Hospital Review January 23, 2017 President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday evening aimed at immediately lessening the economic burden of the ACA as Republican lawmakers work on a repeal and replacement plan. Here are five things to know about the scope of the executive order. 1. The order offers…
Article by Mary Butler. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on January 1, 2017 and is republished here with permission. While the healthcare industry plays “wait and see” with regard to what a Trump Administration means for the regulatory landscape of the last eight years, the events of this past year offer a…
By Maggie Van Dyke for H&HN 5 steps for hospitals to prepare for MACRA’s Quality Payment Program The Jan. 1 launch of Medicare’s new clinician payment system under the MACRA law — the Quality Payment Program — promises to tie a greater percentage of payment to performance, and to accelerate health care’s shift to new…
By Darius Tahir for POLITICO Electronic health record companies are obstructing efforts by specialty societies to gather data that are crucial to the Obama administration’s goal of improving health care quality, leaders of the physician groups tell POLITICO. The data are collected in registries, which are organized to track patients and their conditions and procedures…
By Arun Mirchandani for For The Record There has been a lot of talk recently about secure texting for medication and other types of medical orders. In the past several months, The Joint Commission announced that it was lifting—and then decided to delay lifting—its ban on texting orders while it works with the Centers for Medicare…