MACRA 2018 Proposed Rule Update

The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 gave rise to the CMS Quality Payment Program. In 2017 CMS provided options that allow clinicians to avoid penalties under MACRA fairly easily. CMS released a Proposed Rule for the Quality Payment Program for the 2018 reporting year in June of 2017....

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Refugee Medicine – Difficult L...

Posted by admin on Sep 29, 2014

November, 1983: Each day a new truck would arrive at the Catholic Relief Service’s hospital camp in southeast Thailand; a flatbed pickup filled with sick and dying refugees from the forest floor near the Cambodian border. The patients were primarily young...

Dr. Stearns Receives Faculty S...

Posted by admin on Sep 24, 2014

Michael Stearns, MD was selected by the third year medical school class of the University of Maryland School of Medicine to receive the prestigious Faculty Student Teaching Award in 1989. This award is granted to one faculty member each year by the student body of...

Facial Recognition Technology ...

Posted by admin on Sep 16, 2014

Imagine being able to merely glance in the direction of a stranger and then instantly access everything about them that is available online including their address, age, date of birth, political affiliation, comments made about them on-line (truthful or not) criminal...

Electronic Health Records and ...

Posted by admin on Sep 16, 2014

The following article published by Neurology Times in June of 2014 describes the advantages of using a clinical terminology with EHRs and then mapping to claims-based classifications systems like ICD-10 for reporting. Electronic Health Records and the Transition to...

The Worst Features About EHRs ...

Posted by admin on Sep 16, 2014

The following is an except from an article Published in “Neurology Today.” It includes an interview where Michael Stearns, MD provided feedback on challenges related to the use of electronic health records (EHRs). “THE NOTES READ LIKE JUNK” “EHRs...

Status epilepticus in an 18-mo...

Posted by admin on Sep 11, 2014

Several years ago I was flying back from England to the U.S. About halfway across the Atlantic the crew requested the aid of a physician for an emergency. Despite it being a packed 747, no one answered the initial call. I decided to walk up to see what was going on...

Michael Stearns MD Awarded the...

Posted by admin on Sep 6, 2014

Dr. Michael Stearns was awarded the Navy Achievement Medal for serving as the pediatric neurologist at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, during the Desert Storm conflict in Iraq in 1990. Dr. Stearns was serving as an staff neurologist and...