by Mary Pat Whaley | Mar 13, 2013 | General
From our friend Frank Cohen: “I have some great news concerning the upcoming Mastering RBRVS quickinar™ on Tuesday, March 19 at 2:00 ET. The presentation has been granted 1.5 AAPC CEU credits. According to AAPC: “This program meets AAPC guidelines for 1.5...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jul 5, 2011 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Day-to-Day Operations, Physician Relations, The Cohen Report (NCCI & RVUs)
There is no one, and I do mean no one, in your medical practice who does not need to know the basics of coding. Here is why: Providing services to patients is the business of healthcare. Every person who relies on healthcare for their living should understand...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Mar 17, 2011 | Medicare & Reimbursement, The Cohen Report (NCCI & RVUs)
There are 11,831 new edit pairs, which pushes the total for effective edits to 709,527. There were 346 terminations for a net gain of 11,485. In this release, we find that there are around 350 edit pairs that have termination and/or effective dates retroactive to an...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Nov 28, 2010 | Medicare & Reimbursement, The Cohen Report (NCCI & RVUs)
NOTE: If you need the basics on RACs, click here for my article. From our friend Frank Cohen: Over the past year or so, I have been involved in conducting post RAC (and other) audit analyses to determine whether the RAC (or other auditing agency) was using...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Nov 3, 2010 | Finance
Frank writes: I have finally completed my analysis of the 2009/2010 P/SPS (Physician/Supplier Procedure Summary) Master File. This file contains 100% of all claims submitted to Medicare during a given calendar year, along with a mid-year 5% update. For this analysis,...
