Healthcare Informatics: When President Barack Obama signed into law on Wednesday, April 2 legislation intended to provide a 12-month “patch” to avert physician payment cuts under Medicare’s sustainable growth formula (SGR) law, he signed a bill that not only gave doctors participating in the Medicare program a pay-cut reprieve. It is also a piece of legislation that contains several other provisions, including not only a one-year delay of the transition to the new ICD-10 coding system, but also, important new requirements for the implementation of systems to ensure that all ordering physicians making choices about ordering diagnostic imaging tests use federally approved clinical decision support (CDR) tools.
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