The diffusion of health IT remains a major thrust of American health policy. With costs and quality control taking central roles in healthcare, greater attention is being directed towards IT to drive healthcare transformation. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) authorizes CMS to provide reimbursement incentives for eligible professionals and hospitals, who are successful in showcasing "meaningful use" of certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology.

The federally mandated HIPAA-AS (Administrative Simplification) standard covered electronic transactions and code sets have recently changed. On January 16, 2009, the DHHS announced the final rules for electronic transactions (version HIPAA 5010) and new code set standards (ICD-10-CM). HIPAA compliance just went in to effect on January 1, 2012 for the updated electronic transactions while the new ICD-10 code set standards must be implemented by October 1, 2013.

Government and commercial payers are working towards their compliance goals so as to minimize impact to provider billing and payment processing across the health care industry.

A Few of Our Successes:

As a leading provider or Medicaid systems for over 10 years, CNSI has successfully implemented the Medicaid systems for the states of Michigan and Washington within the last 24 months including managing efforts for timely regulatory compliance efforts for IT systems and processes.

Leveraging best of breed industry tools and partnerships, CNSI has used proprietary methodogy to manage speed of delivery and accuracy for these conversions and upgrades.