Graphium Health Blog

Time for a little bit of fun on a Friday. Here is a collection of funny one-liners, supposedly exactly as found in the medical record: Patient has left her white blood cells at another hospital. Patient has chest pain if she lies on her left side for over a year. On...

What is the CPS, and how might anesthesia providers’ Medicare reimbursements be adjusted based on MACRA compliance?   The 2018 MACRA program consists of 4 categories that are weighted differently to calculate a Composite Performance Score for a given NPI/TIN...

Tweet If you’ve been following the medical community on social media, it’s easy to see a pattern of growing concern around one topic: Physician Burnout. A few Twitter posts show the anxiety of physician burnout in the medical world: Burnout isn’t just an issue for...

Tweet Introduction Anesthesia groups commonly provide services at multiple facilities ranging from paper-based surgery or GI centers to large facilities with fully integrated EHRs. Consequently, the RCM processes for these groups too frequently relies on a paper form...

Introduction In an effort to simplify MACRA reporting requirements for Eligible Providers (EPs), CMS provides a variety of reporting options to both incentivize data submission and penalize poor quality outcomes. The resulting complexity of these options may lead to...

While CMS has incentivized MACRA compliance through a complex series of negative payment adjustments, positive payment adjustments, and "Exceptional Provider" bonuses, we see the market finding additional ways to leverage their MACRA data for additional value,...

2017 preliminary MACRA Scores have arrived! While they will be finalized later this Summer, they're worth reviewing to better understand what it means for anesthesiologists and CRNAs to be MACRA compliant. In this article, we break down the components of your...

Introduction Outside of healthcare, sharing data between companies is simple, fast, and secure. Our daily “out-of-the-hospital” experience in the everyday world often leads to pointed frustration with our IT departments and software vendors. Here are 3 general areas...

“Data beats emotions.” — Sean Rad, founder of Ad.ly The old adage “ignorance is bliss” never resonates more clearly than when watching someone respond emotionally after being presented with “wrong” data — especially in healthcare. Being human, our perceptions of...