by Mary Pat Whaley | Dec 10, 2012 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Day-to-Day Operations, Finance, Medicare & Reimbursement
Private practices, hospital-owned practices and affiliated group practices are facing big changes from healthcare reform, demographic shifts, and economic and reimbursement pressure. The industry is re-evaluating itself from top to bottom and looking for new business...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Dec 3, 2012 | Day-to-Day Operations, Headlines
Most people think they know the basics about health insurance reform in 2014: If they do not have access to medical insurance, they will be required to purchase insurance (costly) or they will be taxed (also costly.) What many people don’t know is that based on...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Nov 19, 2012 | Day-to-Day Operations, Electronic Medical Records, Finance, Headlines, Medicare & Reimbursement, Medicare This Week
This Week’s Medicare News for Medical Practice Managers Vice Chair Gingrey (R-GA) “Confident” of SGR Fix Passing in Lame Duck Congress Session (jump to story) CMS Releases Stage 2 Meaningful Use Specification Sheets with Details on Each Measure ...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Sep 30, 2012 | Medicare & Reimbursement, Medicare This Week
Medicare pricing for flu vaccines were released September 28th and appear below for all HCPCS codes which were published with fees. For more information on billing for these vaccines, see our post here. NEW for 2012-2013! 90653 – Influenza virus vaccine, inactivated,...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jul 16, 2012 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Day-to-Day Operations, Medicare & Reimbursement
You wouldn’t think that a simple thing like the place of service would have the potential to cause a $9.5M overpayment by Medicare. But that is the figure the OIG (Office of the Inspector General) says it estimates that Medicare contractors overpaid physicians...