by Mary Pat Whaley | Jul 16, 2012 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Day-to-Day Operations, Medicare & Reimbursement
You wouldn’t think that a simple thing like the place of service would have the potential to cause a $9.5M overpayment by Medicare. But that is the figure the OIG (Office of the Inspector General) says it estimates that Medicare contractors overpaid physicians...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jul 11, 2012 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Compliance, Day-to-Day Operations, General, Medicare & Reimbursement
As they have since 2006, the American Medical Association released updated CPT codes for vaccines last week ahead of the 2013 official code book release. Some of the highlights of the semi-annual report: Code 90653 – has been ACCEPTED for inclusion in the 2013...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jul 9, 2012 | Electronic Medical Records, Medicare & Reimbursement, Medicare This Week, Quality
On July 6, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that would increase payments to family physicians by approximately 7 percent and other practitioners providing primary care services between 3 and 5 percent. The increase in payment...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jun 24, 2012 | 12 Ways to Supercharge Your Practice, General
Medicare has so many programs that have the potential to increase or decrease your payments that practices need a list to keep them straight. Here’s your list with information on which programs are mutually exclusive and which can be combined. 1....
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jun 17, 2012 | 12 Ways to Supercharge Your Practice, Practice Marketing, Social Media
What’s your website doing for your practice? If your website is providing information to future and current patients, that’s a good thing. More importantly, though, your website should be Driving new patients to the practice. Driving established patients...
