tci Part B Insider - 2008 Issue 21

PHYSICIAN NOTES: CMS Advisory Opinion Approves of Hospital's Software That Communicates With Physicians' EHRs

Plus: Practitioners in S. Florida made up 20 percent of Medicare fraud casesWhen it comes to the physician self-referral law, CMS doesn't kid around. So it was good news this week when CMS issued an advisory opinion in favor of a hospital's plan to develop software that will interface with physicians- electronic health records (EHRs).The hospital in this case wanted its software to be able to communicate with physicians- EHRs so hospital employees could send information such as lab results or surgical details between the two systems.In the advisory opinion, CMS states that the arrangement -does not...

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