by Mary Pat Whaley | Aug 8, 2012 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Compliance, Medicare & Reimbursement
Medicare Fee-For-Service Recovery Auditor Prepayment Review Demonstration Thursday, August 9, 2012 2:00PM – 4:00PM ET Conference Call Only The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will hold a Special Open Door Forum (ODF) to discuss the recently approved...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Aug 8, 2012 | Collections, Billing & Coding, The Manager's Minute (Video)
Coding and billing can go together like peanut butter and chocolate when you’re talking about private medical practices. Hospitals do things much differently, but either way, here are the differences between coding and billing. Be sure to check out...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Aug 5, 2012 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Day-to-Day Operations
Health care law offers free preventive services to 47 million women. Forty-seven million women are getting greater control over their health care and access to eight new prevention-related health care services without paying more out of their own pocket beginning Aug....
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jul 29, 2012 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Electronic Medical Records, Medicare & Reimbursement
The proposed, but not finalized, deadline for ICD-10 is October 2014. Most coding experts recommend training staff 6 months before the deadline. What’s a practice to do with the other 18 months? Who chooses the ICD-9s in your practice today? There are many...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jul 23, 2012 | Day-to-Day Operations, Quality
Is a medication shortage causing you to use single dose vials for more than one patient? On July 13, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report detailing two life-threatening outbreaks that occurred when healthcare providers used medication...
