by Abraham Whaley | Feb 10, 2013 | Compliance, Day-to-Day Operations, Electronic Medical Records, Finance, Headlines, Medicare & Reimbursement
If you read my alert from August or the followup article on Audit Red Flags to Avoid, you are aware that CMS hired an accounting firm, Figliozzi & Company, to audit the compliance of eligible providers and eligible hospitals that had already received payment under...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jan 23, 2013 | Headlines, Innovation, Medicare & Reimbursement, Memes
In our consulting practice we are seeing physicians fleeing hospital employment just when many people are predicting the death of the private medical practice. We affectionately call these physicians our “Single Shingles” and they are approaching private...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jan 22, 2013 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Compliance, Day-to-Day Operations, Medical Coding Education, Medicare & Reimbursement
In 2011, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) unveiled a new benefit to address the need for annual care for seniors. It was widely hailed as a wonderful thing for Medicare patients who previously had no preventive care unless they paid out-of-pocket for a...
by Abraham Whaley | Jan 20, 2013 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Compliance, Day-to-Day Operations, Medicare & Reimbursement
What is Hospice? Hospice care focuses on improving the quality of life for persons and their families faced with a life-limiting illness. The primary goals of hospice care are to provide comfort, relieve physical, emotional, and spiritual suffering, and promote the...
by Abraham Whaley | Jan 15, 2013 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Day-to-Day Operations, Headlines, Leadership, Medicare & Reimbursement
Oh, hello #Flu, you’re a little early this year: sick.io/ksxfm — Sickweather (@sickweather) October 19, 2012 The tweet above was sent out by a very interesting start up named Sickweather on October 19th of last year. Sickweather analyzes data from Twitter...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jan 6, 2013 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Medicare & Reimbursement
Chapter 12 of the “Medicare Claims Processing Manual” (Medicare Billing Bible) is about to change to reflect deleted and/or corrected information as it relates to Claims Processing Instructions for Non-Physician Practitioners (NPPs), i.e., Physicians...
