by Abraham Whaley | Oct 3, 2011 | A Career in Practice Management, Amazing Customer Service, Collections, Billing & Coding, Compliance, Medicare & Reimbursement
As we finish off another month here at MMP, we wanted to go back over some of our most popular posts from the month and get us ready for another busy, productive, and meaningful month. Presenting, The Best of Manage My Practice, September 2011! With the weather...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Sep 26, 2011 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Compliance
A write-off is an amount that a practice deducts from a charge and does not expect to collect, thereby “writing it off” the accounts receivable or list of monies owed them by payers or patients. There are lots of reasons why write-offs are taken, and it is...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Sep 7, 2011 | Compliance, Electronic Medical Records, Medicare & Reimbursement
The new winner of my ongoing competition for the CMS Employee Speaker contest is Dr. Daniel Duvall, Medical Officer, Hospital and Ambulatory Policy Group Center for Medicare! During a recent ICD-10 call, Dr. Duvall spoke clearly, was easy to understand and kept...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Aug 30, 2011 | Compliance, Finance, Human Resources
As we have previously reported, the Department of Labor is taking important steps in the fight against excessive fees in the retirement plan space. Some service providers in the retirement plan industry are opposed to these regulations, claiming they are unnecessarily...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jul 21, 2011 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Compliance, Day-to-Day Operations, Medicare & Reimbursement
Today’s CMS call reviewed the guidelines for the IPPE (Initial Preventive Physical Exam) and the AWV (Annual Wellness Visit), what they include and how to code for them. What is the IPPE (also called the “Welcome to Medicare Visit”)? The IPPE is a...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Apr 6, 2011 | Compliance, Finance, Headlines, Leadership
Fiduciary: a duty (from Latin fiduciarius, meaning “(holding) in trust”; from fides, meaning “faith”, and fiducia, meaning “trust”) is a legal or ethical relationship of confidence or trust regarding the management of money. Over...
