Putting the Penalties and Rewards of MACRA and MIPS into Perspective
· Despite what you have been led to believe, participation in MACRA and MIPS is not mandatory. In fact, participating is not in...
Possible Changes to MIPS
(https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/budget-fy2019.pdf) President Trump’s budget for 2019 includes a proposal to end...
Changes in the ONC
The Office of the National Coordinator – the agency behind Meaningful Use and MACRCA / MIPS, is facing a 37% budget cut ($22M) in 2018. ...
The Future of the Small Practice
It seems that in healthcare (as in almost all else) the big keep getting bigger and the small keep getting smaller. So what is the fate...
Watch Your Step!
A new deadly strain of ransomware aimed directly at the healthcare industry is making the rounds. The virus is spread through a...
Coding Tips: Treatment of Skin Lesions
Just a friendly reminder on lesion destruction/shavings/removal/excision: Medicare will only cover the removal (17000/17003 and 17110) of...
Misleading the Public on Health Care Costs
The World Economic Forum published an article that compares expenditures on health care by nation. It's interesting. The point of the...
Single-Payer Health Care
If elected president, Senator Bernie Sanders proposes to implement a single-payer universal health care system for America. What would...
Affordable Care Act 2016: Outlook
The current trajectory of the Affordable Care Act is not sustainable. As was mentioned in a previous post, one-half of Obamacare’s...
Some frank thoughts on Meaningful Use
Meaningful Use is going into its fifth year. Government bureaucrats are bickering over the final rules for MU3 and lawmakers are arguing...
