Millennium HealthCare has appointed Marc Sherman, MD to the Company Advisory Board. Dr. Sherman has an impressive resume including his current position as the Medical Director of Heartbeat Medical PC, one of the largest cardiology groups in the New York area.
ICD-10 has almost become a dirty word for healthcare providers. In an recent interview, Kevin Weinstein, MBA, vice president of revenue cycle management technology company ZirMed, discussed three challenges facing physicians in regards to ICD-10 implementation.
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It is a fear people have had from the beginning of the technology boom. Actually, it probably started at the beginning of the industrial revolution. People fear that workers will be replaced by machinery and technology. Now, one professor is predicting that rapid advancement in technology will, within a couple of years, eliminate the need for some workers and leave the traditional workplace looking for different.
Atlantic Health Solutions plans to improve their radiology practices revenue cycle procedures. This comes at a time when reimbursements are at an all time low and concerns that it won’t improve with the ICD-10 coding transition looming on the horizon.
Still looking for that perfect gift for the historian or librarian in your life? How about a mobile scanner? This fun and useful product from Flip runs on four AA batteries and has a 2 GB SD memory card installed. The appearance is deceptive with only a 6.5x10 flatbed scanner, but it runs well and the quality of the images stood up to various forms of testing, according to one writer.
Many healthcare providers have added concerns to the already stressful ICD 10 transition. Last week the Department of Health and Human Services and CMS issued final regulations on the medical loss ratio, which guarantees health insurers spend at least 80 percent (for individual and small group markets) or 85 percent (for large group markets) of consumer premiums on medical care.
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