by Mary Pat Whaley | May 19, 2010 | Headlines, Medicare & Reimbursement, PECOS
CMS held a two-hour Open Door Forum today and there was so much good information shared that I thought I’d pass my notes from the call along to you. New EFT Form The revised EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer) authorization form 588 is available here (pdf.) The old...
by Mary Pat Whaley | May 5, 2010 | Headlines, Medicare & Reimbursement, PECOS
NOTE: The date has been changed to July 5, 2011. delayed indefinitely. ************************************************************************************ Physicians and “eligible” providers received a jolt today in the May 5, 2010 Federal Register as the...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Apr 14, 2010 | Medicare & Reimbursement, Memes, Social Media
Not on facebook yet? CMS is.
by Mary Pat Whaley | Mar 28, 2010 | Finance, Headlines, Medicare & Reimbursement, Memes
HEALTHCARE BILL IMPACT ON INDIVIDUALS AND RAGE A number of people asked me about the impact of health reform on them as individuals. Here is a great story from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that takes specific examples of individuals and families and speculates on...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Mar 23, 2010 | Medicare & Reimbursement, The Cohen Report (NCCI & RVUs)
Here’s a refresher from CMS on NCCI for those of us experiencing acronym-exhaustion: The CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) developed the National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) to promote national correct coding methodologies and to control...