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  • Medicare Part B News- Jurisdiction H for March 24th, 2014

    By on March 26, 2014

    The following announcements are brought to you by Novitas Solutions. Novitas Educational Tips and Tools – NETTs: 1995 Evaluation and Management (E&M) Score Sheet Companion You are using the 1995 E&M Score Sheet to verify that the Evaluation and Management (E&M) code you selected is appropriate. You need a...

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  • Medicare Part B News-Jurisdiction H for March 20th, 2014

    By on March 26, 2014

    The following announcements are brought to you by Novitas Solutions. Novitas Educational Tips and Tools – NETTs: Importance of Documentation In an effort to bring the “Importance of Documentation” to the forefront and provide you a useful resource, Novitas Educational Tips and Tools – NETTs is providing a document...

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  • CMS Regions 5-8 Open Payments Webinar

    By on March 26, 2014

    Dear Associations, Medical Societies, Physicians, Practitioners, and Practice Managers, The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) invites you to attend the Open Payments Webinar on Wednesday, April 16, 2014, from 12:00-1:00pm CDT (11:00am-12:00pm MDT).  Open Payments (Physician Payments Sunshine Act) is a program that increases public awareness of...

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  • SAMHSA-HRSA Center for Integrated Health Solutions- News & Updates

    By on March 26, 2014

    The Magnificent Seven: Trainings for the Entire Integrated Care Team Your integrated care team may include professionals from primary care, mental health, and substance use; to work together, they must understand how each sector works and what it takes to successfully integrate primary and behavioral healthcare. The SAMHSA-HRSA Center...

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  • Affordable Care Act Grace Period Information

    By on March 26, 2014

    To learn more about how the ACA grace period will affect providers, read “5 Pointers on ‘Grace Period’ Patients” by clicking here.

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  • Lean Six Sigma Training for Healthcare

    By on March 26, 2014

    Excellence In Healthcare Delivery Lean Six Sigma Excellence in healthcare delivery means helping improve patient outcomes while driving down the cost of patient care! Apply the concepts of continuous improvement to create and sustain a more productive, efficient and cost effective healthcare delivery organization.  Become Black Belt Certified! The...

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  • Will New Rules to Prevent Narrowing of Networks Drive Away Payers?

    By on March 26, 2014

    Healthcare providers have raised alarms over narrow provider networks in the public health insurance exchanges, but Moody’s Investors Service says proposed rules to open up the networks could drive health plans to drop out of the new market. Proposed federal rules that would limit the ability of health plans...

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  • New Revenue Projections Released in Advance of Budget Bill

    By on March 26, 2014

    Economists delivered new projections to the legislature’s budget committee last week in advance of the introduction of the budget bill for fiscal year 2014-15.  Revenues have rebounded solidly since the Great Recession, and the state expects a surplus of $257 million this fiscal year, and more than double that...

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  • Update on the Doc Fix

    By on March 26, 2014

    From the National Rural Health Association (NRHA): Early this morning the House Rules Committee posted a bill that would delay all scheduled cuts under the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) for 12 months. In addition to the delay in SGR cuts, the bill includes a number of rural Medicare extenders...

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  • Medicare Part B- POE Advisory Group Meeting Minutes

    By on March 20, 2014

    JH Part B Provider Outreach and Education (POE) Advisory Group (AG) Meeting Minutes  2/20/2014 The Jurisdiction H Part B Provider Outreach and Education (POE) Advisory Group (AG) Meeting Minutes for 2-20-2014 are now available for your review here.

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