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If the term enterprise identity management (EIDM) doesn't ring a bell, you may not be able to see the quality report cards for your clinicians and your practice when CMS releases them. If you can't see the reports, you could miss your only chance to dispute CMS' decision to apply quality and cost pay cuts against individual clinicians or the entire group in 2018.

Two executives from the well-known DaVita Kidney Care network share some advice for preparing your MIPS entries.

On the heels of two similar settlements, a Baltimore health system has settled a case for $122,928 in which it was accused of getting the doctors whose practice it had acquired to bill established patients as if they were new, inflating their charges.

Reporting therapy services remains something of a quagmire for many physician practices, as CMS noted in a recent transmittal that amounts to a "signal across the bow of the ship."

You'd think if there were anyone whose health information should be protected, it would be people with HIV. Yet Aetna admits to exposing data indicative of both the HIV status and risk of thousands of its beneficiaries with a poorly designed envelope.

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