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This month we would like to know...
What year do you plan to achieve meaningful use of electronic health records at your practice?
2011
2012
2013 or after
Never
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| Latest Results |
| January Web poll results |
| Does your practice use social media (blog, Facebook, Twitter, etc) as a marketing tool? |
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12% |
| No |
79% |
| We plan on using social media in 2011 |
9% |
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Uncle Sam won’t be worsening your paperwork burden, now that the U.S. Senate has repealed a regulation that would have required physician offices and other small businesses to report vendor payments of more than $600 a year to the Internal Revenue Service. Read full article.
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Medical Economics Staff
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The federal government is gearing up to help you prevent some of the most common causes of chronic diseases in your patients. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) plans to spend $750 million to increase immunizations, reduce tobacco use and obesity, and cut the incidence of heart disease and cancer, among other preventive measures. Read full article.
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If your practice is starting to see greater numbers of patients with conditions that used to prevent them from getting insurance coverage, it may be due to the growing popularity of the Enrollment in the Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP), a health plan for uninsured people with pre-existing conditions. Read full article.
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In 2008 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the recovery audit contractors (RAC) program, designed to fight fraud, waste, and abuse in the Medicare system. In an effort to gauge the program’s efficiency and effectiveness, and find out whether appeals of RAC findings have been successful, The Frank Cohen Group, LLC has created a 10-question online survey for Medicare providers who have been audited by the RAC program. The survey is available at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RacIssues. Results will be published in a future issue of Medical Economics.
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