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MRO Satisfies Payer Medical Record Requests Automatically
Requests for medical records have grown enormously in recent years—and that’s as it should be. Because data allows for better decision-making, patient records are being requested by payers, communities of care, and patients themselves. However, this can sometimes be...
Why quality measures are a crucial on-ramp to VBC
Technology is key to success as health systems and providers opt in to value-based contracts and away from fee-for-service reimbursement. Accurate, properly documented, interoperable patient data is required to achieve CMS’s goal for 100 percent of Medicare (and the...
So Many Records, So Little Time: How to Manage Burgeoning Health Plan Requests
So Many Records, So Little Time: How to Manage Burgeoning Health Plan Requests June 15, 2023 Healthcare IT TodayProviders are witnessing an explosion in health plan requests for medical records. In some regions, request volumes are up by 30 percent over last year....
Innovation Between Payers and Providers
Sanket Baralay, Chief Innovation Officer at MRO, and Matthew Raynor, Group Publisher at Healthcare Innovation, discuss the ongoing challenges between payers and providers, especially when it comes to reimbursement and compliance.[dnxte_button button_text="View Full...
Interoperability Rule Enforcement Is Coming. Are You Ready?
Rita Bowen of MRO discusses why some organizations are choosing not to ready themselves for interoperability until enforcement begins and how reproductive care can throw a wrench into the process.[dnxte_button button_text="View Full Article" button_link=""...
Three Tech Takeaways from RISE: Health Plans Focus on Engagement, Collaboration and Compliance
by Beth Friedman, FINN Partners It has been said that wherever Medicare goes, so do all the rest of the payers. If last week’s RISE National 2023 keynote speaker was any indication, future efforts and investments by payers and health plans will focus on three specific...
3 specific areas of data sharing to clarify and consider in 2023
As Fred Bazzoli’s article on the ONC notes, work on interoperability has been happening for more than 20 years and the “coming attractions” are here. While no one argues that we still have work to do, the 21st Century Cures Act, the Trusted Exchange Framework and...
Hospitals require an integrated team approach to ensuring revenue integrity
Healthcare organizations cannot expect to achieve financial sustainability without having a deliberate focus on ensuring revenue integrity. Only with such a focus can they deliver programs and services that are essential for coordinating internal efforts to maintain...
Information Blocking: Leading the World in Patient Access: Two Insights Post Data Liberation Day
October 6, 2022, marked the formal enforcement and compliance deadline for the United States health care industry to provide patients with access to their electronic health information (EHI). Also coined “health data liberation day,” the celebration was an important...