Shannon Larner Brainard is a member of the Professional Liability Department at Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, where she focuses her practice, in part, on representing health care professionals and their practices, including physicians in many specialty areas, physician’s assistants, dentists and nurses in connection with licensing and credentialing matters, negotiation of employment agreements and separations, reimbursement issues, and advice regarding federal and state regulatory compliance issues. Shannon can be reached at 302.552.4344 or slbrainard@mdwcg.com. Stephanie Barr is an associate in the Health Care Department at Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin. She concentrates her practice in health law and compliance, working with health care institutions and professionals in matters relating to medical reimbursement, fraud and abuse (Stark and anti-kickback), privacy and security FEATURE sTORY under HITECH/HIPAA, credentialing and licensure, and antitrust issues. Stephanie can be reached at 215.575.2590 or smbarr@mdwcg.com. Resources 1 This article focuses on electronic health records (eHRs), which are different from electronic medical records (emRs). emRs are digital versions of paper charts which contain a patient’s medical history from a healthcare practice. generally, emRs are used by healthcare providers as a means of record-keeping the diagnosis and treatment of a patient on a particular date of service or patient visit. 2 This article focuses on participation of eligible professionals in eHR Incentive Programs and does not include a discussion of eligible hospitals or critical access hospitals. eligible professionals under the medicare eHR Incentive Program include doctors of medicine or osteopathy, dental surgery or dental medicine, podiatry, optometry, or chiropractor. DID YOU KNOW? (continued on next page) If you became a member of HBMA today, you could have a new client by next month. Don’t miss being part of HBMA’s new Professional Billing Service Locator Program. We will submit a list of HBMA medical billing organizations for providers to contact – one could be you! Fill out the Request for Information (RFI) form NOW. But you have to be a member! Renew right now TODAY to receive unlimited online education for SIX MONTHS starting now! + www.hbma.org/renew Or toll free 877.640.4262 or info@hbma.org THe JOuRNaL OF THe HeaLTHCaRe BILLINg aND maNagemeNT assOCIaTION 27
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