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| Quality
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Office-Based
Order Entry System
The Indiana-ACC
is striving, through
a statewide cardiovascular informatics quality program, to change alarming
health care statistics by implementing a special project
called Cardiovascular Informatics Center of Excellence: Computer Order Entry
System with Practice Guideline Decision Support Medication Error Reduction
Project.
Find out more.
Get
with the Guidelines
Be your hospital's quality champion!
Implement the AHA's Get with the Guidelines Program at your
hospital. Contact us, and
we will help make it easy for you!
Learn more.
Diabetes
Mellitus Cardiology Module
Take a moment to read about this
Scientific Evidence Based Medicine Module on Type 2 Diabetes
Mellitus.
In depth.
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Medicare
Fee Cuts |
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What
can you do to stop this from happening? Contact
Congress to help prevent cuts in physician Medicare payments.
Unless Congress acts, physicians are slated to receive
a 4.2 percent cut on Jan. 1, 2004.
In-depth.
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ACC
PAC |
You
owe it to yourself and to your patients to support candidates
who vote with this country’s physicians and patients in
mind. Writing a personal check to the ACC PAC today will allow
you to do just that! To make a contribution* to the ACC PAC, click
here, print off the form, and mail or fax it to the
ACC at the address listed.
For
more information, visit
ACC's PAC.
You can also arrange convenient monthly payments from
your credit card.
*
Contributions to the ACC PAC are not tax-deductible.
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| Medical Liability
Reform: What You Can Do |
A
growing number of you have asked what you can do to help
advance the medical liability reform debate and raise
awareness among your patients on how they can become empowered
advocates at the state and federal levels.
In
response, the ACC has designed a medical liability reform
toolkit that gives you the resources necessary to engage your
patients and gain their assistance in achieving medical
liability reform.
Continue.
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| Indiana
Legislative Corner |
| Become
a legislative key contact, and bring the voice of
cardiology to Indiana legislators! It's easy -- just
click here.
Senate
Bill 363
became effective July 1. It will provide tort immunity to
physicians who give medical direction to a person in the use
of an automatic external defibrillator. For the immunity to
apply, the physician's act or omission must involve the
training for or use of the defibrillator and must not amount
to gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct.
House
Bills 1128, 1546, 1533 and 1283 died this session. These
failed insurance measures detailed physician reimbursement.
Scope expansion bills were also defeated this session.
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| Indiana
Medicare |
| Cardiology
-- Multiple Procedures Same Session. When physicians
within the same group provide services to the same
beneficiary, the services should be billed on the same claim
form. Since these physicians are part of one group, they share
the same 6-digit base in their provider numbers. Each service
should be billed with the appropriate physician PIN number in
item 24K to indicate which procedure the physician performed.
AdminaStar Federal confirmed it does not matter which
physician signs the claim in item 31.
Event
Recorders. When a physician does not have equipment and
borrows an event recorder, no charge can be billed to the
carrier. If a physician owns the equipment but it is out for
repair, the situation still constitutes ownership, and the
physician may bill Medicare for the test.
Medicare
Coverage Database. Carolyn Cunningham, MD, carrier
medical director, explained the www.lmrp.net
website will e deleted in an effort to make coverage easier to
find. Now access the coverage database at www.cms.hhs.gov/coverage.
Local Medical Review Policy (LMRP) will continue to appear on
the ASF website at www.adminastar.com.
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