EHR vendors are rolling out financial analysis tools that pull data from your electronic health records and practice management systems. While this is a promising development, it may not be time to stop using your Excel spreadsheets yet.

Providers already know their financial relationships with pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers will soon become public via an HHS website thanks to the new Sunshine Act. But failing to tell patients about those relationships up front may lead to hefty fines for violating state consumer protection laws.

If your practice is affiliated with a hospital or health system, you may be using the wrong place of service (POS) code on your claims — just as CMS is cracking down.

In perhaps another sign of the growth in services furnished by non-physician practitioners, the SSA is being asked to give equal weight to the medical findings of NPPs when determining whether a person is eligible for Social Security disability payments.

Will Medicare pay for the home INR testing with code G0250 (M.D. INR test review management) and an E/M service when both are billed on the same date of service?

Utilization trends for highly-billed services usually move upward as more patients become eligible for Medicare. But here are 10 services that bucked the trend.

Providers who have attested for CMS’ meaningful use program for electronic health records (EHR) systems risk losing thousands of dollars from failing an audit due to poor documentation of all of the requirements.

Vendors that provide EHRs for free — or virtually free — are surging in popularity. Critics suggest they’re unstable, but in an unstable EHR environment, that might not be such a big deal.