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Business Daily Feb. 9, 2010 Today's Featured Story CMS’s PEPPER Data Is Due Out Soon With Few Changes, Will Provide Audit Help to Hospitals In early February, CMS will resume its distribution of free PEPPER data, which are a roadmap to potential hospital overpayments and underpayments, George Mills, director of the CMS Provider Compliance Group, tells AIS. CMS has made some changes to the program to make it more useful to hospitals, but the coding and medical necessity targets are basically the same, Mills says....Read Full Story Quote
of the Day “The trains will run on time [with a career staffer running CMS], but if you want someone to be aggressive and take some political risks, it’s going to have to be an appointee.”
— Tom Scully, former HCFA head who is now with the law firm of Alston & Bird, told AIS’s HEALTH PLAN WEEK.
Buy the issue of HEALTH PLAN WEEK in which this quote appeared (PDF transmitted immediately). Today's
Datapoint 50%...is the approximate level of employee participation in wellness programs, according to a survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
People
on the Move Hospitalists Consultants, Inc. appointed Kenneth R. Epstein, M.D., chief medical officer and regional director. Epstein was a resident at kre consulting, a company specializing in hospitalist program management….Medflow, Inc., developer of electronic health records software for eye care physicians, named Ippolit C. A. Matjucha, M.D., medical director. Matjucha was the senior staff physician at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington and Peabody Mass. Today's
Featured Health Business Job Opening Content questions or suggestions should be directed to BJ Taylor, editor of AIS's HEALTH BUSINESS DAILY, at bjtaylor@aispub.com. If you are interested in sponsoring AIS's HEALTH BUSINESS DAILY, please contact Bailey Sterrett at bsterrett@aispub.com. AIS's HEALTH BUSINESS DAILY is copyrighted and protected by federal law. The re-use of its content is restricted (see below). However, you are permitted to forward this e-mail to as many of your friends and colleagues as you wish, or better yet have them sign up for their own copy at http://www.magnetmail.net/actions/ atlantic_subscription.cfm, where you can also sign up for AIS's Government News of the Week. Copyright © 2010 Atlantic Information Services, Inc. (AIS). All rights reserved. It is not permissible to include all or any portion of this content on any Web site, intranet or electronic network or in any print publication, without AIS's written permission in advance. Permission requests should be directed to rbiehl@aispub.com. |
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