A Corporate Advisory Board is a council of senior representatives from a handful of key clients at which future plans and strategies can be discussed frankly and confidentially. Paul Sloane, a member of the No World Borders advisory board has facilitated several of these boards for different companies
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology published the latest list of electronic health record solutions, vendors and certifying bodies. This list is for Inpatient EHR only. Many health care providers have been distracted with electronic health record implementations and meaningful use and are just starting to work through HIPAA 5010 and ICD-10 issues now.
Accountable Care standards may be fluid for some time, however it is clear that there will be a need for core competencies in population management, coordination of care and other areas for an ACO to function effectively. Blum emphasized that CMS will be looking for innovative models, with different payment systems, and with different “on ramps” to formation and approval. It was also acknowledged that improving quality and reducing cost through coordination of care will at times be at odds with and the Accountable Care Act’s continued focus on patient choice of providers.
If you are shopping for a tool for converting ICD-9 to ICD-10 diagnosis and procedure codes, make sure that you include subject matter experts in the area on your selection team, and create challenges for the vendors to overcome that represent real-world clinical scenarios - not canned demonstrations.
Although no official word has been handed down regarding exactly what fines our federal government may slap against healthcare organizations that fail to comply with HIPAA 5010 or ICD-10, it…
An Accountable Care Organization (ACO), is a physician-led entity – consisting of hospitals, primary care physicians, and specialists – responsible for managing the full continuum of care and accountable for the overall costs and quality of care for a defined population, that is partnered with their health plan. CMS mandates such as ICD-10 are separate from health care reform and were mandated before health care reform became law.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that registration for its Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) incentive programs will begin January 3, 2011