1. June 2013
In This Issue
Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS):
Your Questions Answered
As you may already know, Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS)
is a program that was created in order to obtain quality information
from physicians. The basis of this program is to use pay-for-performance
incentives and adjustments to help steer physicians toward improvement
in quality healthcare.
This Resource helps answer some of the most
frequently asked PQRS questions. In it, we answer:
• What Do I Need to Do?
• What Materials/Equipment Do I Need?
• How Do I Train My Staff?
• How and When Do I Need To Submit?
• When Can I Expect Payment?
Click here to access our PQRS Resource.
The Uncertain Future of In-Office Imaging
1.1
Physician Quality
Reporting System
(PQRS):
Your Questions
Answered
1.2
The Uncertain
Future of In-Office
Imaging
2.3
Using Business
Intelligence and
Analytics for
Radiology Billing
2.4
Why Ignoring ICD-
10 Won’t Make it
Go Away
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Physicians have long been used
to working within the framework
of the Stark Law. This 1989
legislation placed restrictions
on the ability of doctors for
self referrals, for Medicare and
Medicaid patients, and to refer
for advanced diagnostic imagery
to institutions in which the
physician had a vested financial
interest. In response to criticism of
the legislation, several exceptions
were introduced to include, among other things, in-office ancillary services.
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Using Business Intelligence and
Analytics for Radiology Billing
It seems like data is everywhere you
look. Businesses rely on marketing data,
customer demographics, accounting
numbers, and in-depth analytics to
make daily decisions. Experts espouse
the use of business intelligence in
manufacturing, health care, financial
management, and other niches.
What does this new reliance on data have to do with radiology billing?
If you want to develop a profitable claims process, it turns out data
plays a huge role.
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Why Ignoring ICD-10 Won’t Make it Go Away
The US Dept. of Health and Human Services has
directed the supplanting of the ICD-9-CM code
sets, those currently utilized by physicians, medical
billers and coders to report healthcare procedures
and diagnoses, with ICD-10 codes.
Implementation is to be effected on October
1, 2014. Its implementation will impact and
completely change the current coding system.
It will necessitate a huge amount of effort
to implement, and it isn’t going to go away.
Individual and organizational health providers
need to get on board with training if they expect
to get paid for their services after October 1, 2014.
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