MINNEAPOLIS. June 17, 2008—On Monday, June 16, at the AMA House of Delegates meeting in Chicago, the AMA introduced its "Cure for Claims" campaign along with its National Health Insurer Report Card (NHIRC).

MINNEAPOLIS, June 12, 2008 - The MMA sent an Action Alert! to its members Tuesday urging them to contact Senators Norm Coleman and Amy Klobuchar and ask them  to stop the drastic cut that goes into effect July 1 by supporting the bill, S. 3101.

MINNEAPOLIS, June 9, 2008—The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is sponsoring a 2008 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) toll-free call.

MINNEAPOLIS, May 23, 2008—A statewide forum for anyone planning or implementing electronic health records will be held on June 26 at the Northland Inn in Brooklyn Park.

MINNEAPOLIS, May 20, 2008—As of May 23, Medicare FFS will require and send NPI only in all provider identifier fields for all HIPAA and paper transactions where a provider identifier is required.  If you send Medicare a transaction with a Medicare legacy identifier in any of the provider fields, your claim will be rejected.    

MINNEAPOLIS, May 5, 2008— David Bounk, retiring president of Midwest Medical Insurance Company (MMIC) was honored Saturday at the May meeting of the MMA Board of Trustees.

MINNEAPOLIS, May 5, 2008—Beginning May 23, physicians will only be able to use their National Provider Identifiers (NPIs) when filing all electronic claims and some paper claims with Medicare and other payers.

MINNEAPOLIS, April 25, 2008—Stratis Health is holding an informational conference call to accelerate the adoption and implementation of electronic health records (EHR) to improve patient care by providing incentive payments to small and mid-sized adult primary care physician practices.

MINNEAPOLIS, April 21, 2008—Registration is open for the 2008 Minnesota e-Health Summit on June 26th, as well as the Pre-Summit on Demystifying EHR Planning & Selection Workshop on June 25th.

MINNEAPOLIS, April 10, 2008—The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology is announcing its latest resource, EHR Decisions, an online journal of experiences with and opinions about Electronic Health Records (EHRs).