Baptist Health offers advice to get ready for the Oct. 1 implementation date.

Geisinger, MassHIWay and more share their efforts to get patients sharing data.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) urgently seeks volunteers for ICD-10 end-to-end testing with Medicare in July 2014, according to a notice.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is looking to recoup payments after discovering that its Physician Quality Reporting System and Electronic Prescribing incentive programs are riddled with data integrity issues, such as rejected and improper payments.

The FDASIA Work Group soon will release a proposed strategy for a risk-based regulatory framework for health IT, FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, MD, told the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee during a hearing that examined FDA’s initiatives and priorities.

The American Medical Association (AMA) on Thursday took the unusual step of writing to Congress to express its disappointment in the current proposal to pay for a permanent repeal of the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula by delaying the Affordable Care Act’s mandate that individuals must purchase insurance or pay a penalty.

Although the proposed cuts to the Medicare Advantage program announced last month were not as deep as some had feared, the opposition mounted by the insurance industry and legislators has been fierce.

WALTHAM, MASS.--Harvard Pilgrim Health Care completed its ICD-10 assessment in 2011 and began detailed planning in 2012, said Rita Hunt, the organization’s ICD-10 program manager, speaking at the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium’s March 10 conference on ICD-10 planning.