by Michael Marron-Stearns | May 10, 2020 | Telehealth
This post briefly discusses an article on the Medicare telehealth waivers published by CMS in March and April of 2020. The article provides an overview of Medicare eligible telehealth services during the current pandemic. It provides a list of the 238 services now...
by Michael Marron-Stearns | Apr 15, 2020 | COVID-19 Pandemic, Telehealth
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) hosted a podcast on the COVID-19 pandemic on April 13th, 2020 and moderated by Dan Kelly. It focused on the physician perspective and features interview with two physician health information management...
by Michael Marron-Stearns | Mar 1, 2020 | Articles Authored by Apollo HIT Staff, Quality Payment Program in 2020, Quality Payment Program Information
Part II of the five-part series on the Quality Payment Program in 2020 authored by Michael Stearns, MD, CPC, CRC, CFPC, founder and CEO of Apollo HIT, LLC, has been published. It is available here. This article addresses the requirements for the quality performance...
by Michael Marron-Stearns | Feb 5, 2020 | Articles Authored by Apollo HIT Staff, Quality Payment Program in 2020, Quality Payment Program Information
Posted February 5, 2020 The Journal of the American Health Information Management Association (JAHIMA) published an article titled Quality Payment Program: 2020 Changes and Requirements Part 1, the first of a five-part series on the Quality Payment Program...
by Michael Marron-Stearns | Aug 23, 2019 | Quality Payment Program Information
CMS will allow clinicians to choose from a number of hardship exceptions for the Promoting Interoperability performance category of MIPS. On the 2019 MIPS Promoting Interoperability Fact Sheet has as one of the choices, “You are in a small practice.” The...
