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100% of Mobile-Health Apps Vulnerable to Hacking!
Of 30 mHealth apps selected for examination, every single one tested was found vulnerable. These 30 apps (out of over 300,000 mHealth apps available in the major app stores) are used by an estimated 23 Million people.
Considering Remote Physiologic Monitoring – RPM? Here is what you need to know!
Remote Physiologic Monitoring improves patient health while generating additional revenues for the practice. Since CMS now allows billing ‘incident to’ the physician’s direction, for many practices, partnering with a vendor offering a full turnkey solution is the best approach!
Chronic Care Management: Do it yourself? Contract with a Service? Not enough reimbursement to bother?
OF COURSE you want to keep your at-risk patients healthier by tracking them between visits, but that only works if you can do so economically and with as little management effort as possible. Perhaps you are already spending copious unpaid time managing care between office visits…
What is Chronic Care Management?
CMS recognizes management of chronic diseases as a critical component of primary care that contributes to better health and care for individuals. In 2015, to encourage doctors to do more chronic care management (and to compensate those who were already doing so) they added codes specifically for CCM to the physician fee schedule.
Deadline TODAY: MIPS Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances Exception Application Due February 1
To further support clinicians during the COVID-19 public health emergency, CMS extended the deadline for COVID-19 related 2020 MIPS Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances Exception applications to February 1, 2021. This applies to …
The HHS Portal for reporting Provider Relief Fund uses is open FOR REGISTRATION ONLY!
The portal was originally supposed to open for reporting on January 15th and close on February 15th. It did open on the 15th, but only for registration. At present, there is no deadline for completing registration in the portal. Recipients who are registered will later receive a notification via email …
Key questions for Your Practice as Coronavirus Vaccination Becomes Available
With vaccination now (or soon) available to healthcare workers under EUA, medical practices should be thinking about their policies regarding vaccination of office staff. Here are some key questions you should consider – having policies in place will protect you from potential problems.
MIPS: 2020 Hardship Exception Application Deadline is Extended
There are a number of MIPS critical deadlines coming up end of year, and others in the first part of 2021. The deadline to request re-weighting of any or all MIPS categories for Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances has just been extended due to the pandemic until February 1, 2021 at 8PM EST. (In ‘normal’ years, that
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