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The Indiana Health Information Exchange, developed by the Regenstrief Institute, operates the Indiana Network to improve health and healthcare through information exchange.
For healthcare professionals in IN, IHIE provides critical infrastructure for seamless data sharing that can enhance care coordination and patient outcomes statewide.
Indiana physicians who perform terminated pregnancies must report them to the Indiana Department of Health under Indiana Code 16-34-2.
Healthcare professionals in IN must understand this reporting obligation to maintain compliance with state law and proper documentation practices.
The Indiana Department of Health is highlighting its work to improve health outcomes in rural communities across the state.
For IN healthcare professionals, understanding state-level rural health initiatives can inform local practice strategies and reveal potential collaboration or resource opportunities.
MHS Indiana has launched an online tool to help users browse and find the right provider across all healthcare fields.
For IN healthcare professionals, inclusion in this directory enhances referral visibility and patient access within one of the state's key managed care networks.
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OSHA inspections of healthcare facilities most commonly find three violations: an Exposure Control Plan that has not been reviewed annually (date-stamped review required), engineering controls that have not been re-evaluated when new devices are introduced, and post-exposure protocols that do not match the actual reporting workflow.
Each citation carries per-violation penalties, and willful or repeat designations multiply them. Re-evaluation paperwork is the cheapest control to maintain.
The MIPS cost performance category is calculated retrospectively by CMS using attributed Medicare claims; clinicians cannot directly affect what is attributed. The two attribution methods (TPCC and MSPB) capture different beneficiary cohorts. Practices that try to "manage" cost without understanding which patients are attributed to which clinician typically waste effort.
Cost is now 30% of the MIPS final score — the largest single category. Misunderstanding attribution is the leading cause of unfavorable payment adjustments in the next cycle.
Across most payors, the top-five denial reasons account for over 80% of prior-auth rejections: missing clinical documentation, wrong CPT/HCPCS code, service not in benefit plan, step-therapy not completed, and ordering provider not on the patient's plan. The same five repeat across plans because they are the easiest to deny on automation.
Practices that build a five-line pre-submission checklist around these reasons typically cut prior-auth denials by 40-60% within a quarter. The fix is process, not appeals capacity.
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