by Mary Pat Whaley | Apr 6, 2018 | Medicare & Reimbursement, Medicare This Week
If you’ve seen new reason code N793 on your Medicare remittance advice lately and wonder what it is, you now know it relates to the new Medicare card. The description for N793 is: Alert: CMS is changing from the Medicare Health Insurance Claim Number (HICN aka...
by Abraham Whaley | Mar 9, 2016 | Amazing Customer Service, Collections, Billing & Coding, Compliance, Day-to-Day Operations, Finance, Medicare & Reimbursement
The advance beneficiary notice (ABN) is a powerful tool for practices to educate patients about their benefits and responsibilities for Medicare non-covered services. Many of our readers still write us to ask questions about the form and the correct way to use it in...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jul 7, 2015 | Headlines, ICD-10
First, the game-changing announcement below means that a sigh of relief is in order. Some of the anxiety surrounding potential financial disaster should be abated. CMS announced: “Medicare review contractors [MACs and RACs] will not deny physician or other...
by Abraham Whaley | Mar 31, 2013 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Day-to-Day Operations, Finance, Headlines, Medicare & Reimbursement
This is no April Fool’s Joke for medical practices and providers: starting Monday, April 1st, we will face a 2% cut in reimbursement for services due to the “sequester.” The sequester is the other half of the “fiscal cliff” that we...
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...
