The 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act), signed into law in 2016, was designed to help bring health care innovations to patients to provide more patient control in a value-based health system.[i] Recognizing that patient access and ease of transfer of health records are key, the law includes two provisions that directly affect health care offices
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This article aims to give you the 10,000-foot fly-by on recent legislation and where we believe we are heading in the sharing of digital information.
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The future is now. In an ever-changing world, healthcare has never been more poised for disruption. While evidence-based healthcare (EBH) has been the hot topic over the last decade, I would encourage you and the rest of the profession to consider that we are moving rapidly into an era of Intelligence-based healthcare (IBH). Let’s review the ABCD’s of IBH!
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The law provided for a 0.5% update for claims with dates of service on or after January 1, 2014 through December 31, 2014.
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The details covered in this article are very important and we urge you to read and review the article for Cures Act requirements and compliance items.
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Change can be defined as “a difference in a state of affairs at different points in time”. However, some of the old-time philosophers went so far as insisting that change was impossible and that reality was unchanging. I would suggest that, though some of us like the same old ways, change is an evolution and is influenced by circumstances and present reality. Even though some may choose to ignore or minimize circumstances and live in their “own reality,” these are changing times.
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In addition to the looming changes with BCBS-IL and Orthonet, Cigna and ASHN, and other carriers, there are a number of other changes.
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The ICS previously placed several formal inquiries to CMS regarding clarification for Clinical Summaries (Measure 13, Stage 1). We made the inquiries because the language in many of their publications was ambiguous and left providers uncertain. However, CMS recently released a statement with greater clarification:
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