decisionhealth Newsletters, Part B News - 2003 Issue 2 (February)
Software to improve your billing may get support from CMS
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Article Overview
This article covers a proposed electronic health record initiative by the American Academy of Family Physicians and CMS’s interest in possibly supporting it. It focuses on how health information technology could combine clinical documentation and billing functions to support Medicare reporting, along with the organizational and funding considerations behind the project. The piece is relevant to physicians, practice managers, billing staff, and health IT stakeholders following Medicare documentation and electronic records developments.
Why This Topic Matters
It highlights an early effort to connect electronic records with billing accuracy for Medicare services and shows how CMS and medical organizations were exploring technology support for documentation and coding workflows.
What You Will Learn
- What the proposed software initiative is intended to address
- How electronic health records were being discussed as a billing support tool
- Which organizations and stakeholders were involved in early discussions
- What kinds of implementation and funding issues were being raised
Who Should Read This
- Physicians
- Medical office billing staff
- Practice managers
- Health information technology professionals
- Compliance and coding staff
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