Today, Partners Urgent Care (http://partnersurgentcare.org) declared the launch of its newest center situated in the region of Boston near Boston Common, inside City Place at 137 Stuart Street. This is the 6th Partners Urgent Care location merging centers opened previously this year in the Cambridge at Central Square and the town of Canton in addition to initially opened sites in Brookline, Newton and Watertown. 4 extra centers are planned to open this fall in Medford, Cambridge at Porter Square, Burlington and Woburn. Partners Urgent Care is collaboration between the organization of Partners HealthCare, an integrated health care system discovered by Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital, and MedSpring Urgent Care.
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Today, the ACR (American College of Rheumatology) welcomed components of a new proposed rule from the CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) regarding the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) Quality Payment Program (QPP) as consisting of various positive developments for rheumatology providers. Particularly, support has been expressed by the rheumatologists for CMS's proposals to enhance the threshold for Merit-Based Incentive Payments System (MIPS) exemptions, to extend "Pick Your Pace" flexibility for another year and to delay electronic health records (EHRs) requirements. Furthermore, the ACR supports keeping the cost performance category weighted at zero for another year beyond the year of 2018.
The EHRs (Electronic Health Records) Incentive Program run by the CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) garnered attention again previous week following the issue of a report by the Office of Inspector General of the US Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) explaining incorrect payments to physicians under the program. On the heels of a high-profile settlement, the report follows under the False Claims Act between the US Department of Justice and an EHR vendor regarded to certified electronic health record technology (CEHRT) used in the EHR Incentive Program.
Frisco based Code 3 Emergency Partners, LLC, is glad to declare the launch of Code 3 Urgent Care & Pharmacy at McCarran International Airport, Terminal 1, Las Vegas, NV. This will be the 1st airport location of Code 3 Emergency Partners with a second airport location at DFW International Airport, Terminal D, slated to opening in the late summer 2017
M*Modal now has started supporting NoteReader clinical documentation improvement module of Epic. Working keenly alongside its embedded computer-assisted physician documentation tool, M*Modal claimed that the technology of CDI will be capable to deliver automated response or feedback to physicians for better reporting
Video and text chat is a strong way to stay in touch with your friends and family. Some quick advice can also be provided by the smartphone on health matters, whether from an individual you know or the web.
According to a letter released to CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) Administrator Seema Verma Tuesday, the American Hospital Association (AHA) emphasized the agency to suspend its "deeply flawed" overall star ratings program, which is less than one year old.
Next year, 47 counties are projected to have no Obamacare insurers and 1,200 could have just one, in accordance with a new federal report
$729.4 million has been paid by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in improper incentive payments to eligible professionals (EPs) who didn’t meet Meaningful Use requirements, in accordance with a new audit by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services.
The CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) are calling for new activities and measures for consideration for the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) of MACRA's Quality Payment Program (QPP).
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