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During the past three years, we saw covered entities pay fines of more than $20 million because of HIPAA violations. If we want medical billing outsourcing, it can only be safe if the business associate shows HIPAA compliance. In case, they don't, you might as well continue with the in-house solution. OCR under the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) ensures the safety of health information at all costs.

Virtual reality (VR) has taken over the digital world. It was supposed to revolutionize gaming, but it has also entered into a sensitive field as healthcare. Physicians are using various technologies to provide high-quality medical facilities to patients. From assisting remote patients to medical billing to MIPS submission methods, technology is giving a new dimension to this field.

A cancer registry is the cancer cases which are registered in a population or specific country. In whole world mortality rate due to cancer is 20%. In USA cancer is the second largest disease of causing death after heart disease. Recently in 2016 estimated that 595,690 people die from this disease according to cancer statistics of National Cancer Institute USA.

At iPatientCare, we strive to provide the experts' solution regarding the way an innovative MIPS payment system or the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System can be implemented. We will be constantly advising you about all CMS-MACRA updates. Our experts understand about the best ways of implementing the present MACRA regulations.

Physical therapists (PTs) are now a breathing part of the Quality Payment Program (QPP). It is a choice they have to make because they can't back out. Medicare MIPS reporting through a MIPS Qualified Registry or an EHR system can get them through the maze of value-based care smoothly.

MACRA EHR is finally here and Clinicians are overwhelmed by the changes and complexities in the New Payment Model.

HITECH - (Health Information Technology for Economics and Clinical Health) Act of 2009 is the bill that was passed to encourage the healthcare industry to adopt EHR technology. Moreover, it also motivates to use other related technologies for building an advanced and user-friendly US-healthcare system.

Since the healthcare industry has taken serious measures to revamp healthcare services, the emphasis on incentive payment programs has increased. MIPS, MACRA, and more offer facilities to physicians that regular payment method can never provide.

Healthcare industry is moving at a fast pace via Healthcare Information Technology (HIT). Everybody knows that electronic healthcare records (EHRs) are the most advanced practice of innovation in the healthcare industry. The meaningful use of EHRs (MU) is not limited to a certain sector of healthcare, which is capable of heavy investment. In fact, it is widely accepted by physicians of every scale and expertise.

The article lists technologies to look out for in 2019, according to Bill Gates. After analysis of the MIT Technology Review's yearly content around emerging technologies, he was able to select 7 of them with the most impact. These special applications have a future in healthcare because they come from none other than the maestro himself.

This ongoing period is the MIPS 2018 reporting season! Physicians and MIPS consulting services have buckled upped their shoes to assemble appropriate clinical data that best favor medical practice in term of financial matters and reputation among fellow physicians.

Medical coding was already a complex subject to talk about, and with the introduction of the ICD-10-CM coding system, it gets a touch more difficult. If you look at it from the skills perspective, the subject poses difficulty to high schoolers with average grades. A hard-working candidate has a chance of making it big in this industry with a decent pay scale at the very start.

There are several medical specializations and for each specialization, there is a certain set of rules and codes in medical billing services.