By Alena Nikuliak – Healthcare providers can now add remote cardiac monitoring to their repertoire. Recent advances in RCM has offered a new way for providers to manage the health of patients with heart conditions.

CMS has opened the data submission period for MIPS eligible clinicians who participated in the 2022 performance year of the Quality Payment Program. Data can be submitted and updated until 8:00 p.m. ET on March 31, 2023.

By Bronwyn Spira – With its introduction of five new CPT codes for Remote Therapeutic Monitoring (RTM) in 2022, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services made remote care reimbursable, opening the door to broader use and acceptance of at-home care.

By Art Gross – The OCR within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is responsible for enforcing compliance with HIPAA. As part of its mandate, the OCR annually releases a report on data breaches in the healthcare industry. The most recent report, which covers the year 2021, was recently released.