by Michael Stearns | Jul 19, 2020 | COVID-19 Pandemic, Telehealth
Physician practices are facing unprecedented financial challenges secondary to the pandemic. A significant number of practices are not aware of revenue generating virtual services (see table 1. below) that are an optimal way of improving care while earning additional...
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...
by Michael Marron-Stearns | Apr 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
CMS and the ONC released simultaneous proposed rules tied to information blocking and a number of related topics. Key concepts are summarized here: CMS and ONC Proposed Rules on Information Blocking – Key Considerations . The article was written by Apollo HIT...
by Michael Marron-Stearns | Sep 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
Author: Michael Marron-Stearns, MD, CPC, CFPC (Michael@ApolloHIT.com) This article discusses how a large percentage of clinicians eligible for MIPS will receive MIPS Scores in 2017 and 2018 based on what are called “MIPS APMs” that use a distinctly different scoring...
by Michael Marron-Stearns | Aug 22, 2017 | Articles Authored by Apollo HIT Staff
This article was published in the September 2017 addition of the Journal of AHIMA and became available online in August 2017. A large number of MACRA professionals have reported that many providers are enrolled in an aspect of the MACRA Quality Payment Program called...
by Michael Marron-Stearns | Aug 22, 2017 | Articles Authored by Apollo HIT Staff
This article discusses the Additional Positive Payment Adjustment for exceptional performance under MIPS. The article requires membership to AHIMA however for reprints please reach out to us at info@apollohit.com in summary, the article discusses the $500 million fund...
