Are lower payment rates due to the new hourly wage calculation on the horizon for home health agencies?
If you’re not paying close attention to cost reporting because you think it doesn’t matter, think again. Medicare’s
Are lower payment rates due to the new hourly wage calculation on the horizon for home health agencies?
If you’re not paying close attention to cost reporting because you think it doesn’t matter, think again. Medicare’s proposal to rebalance hospice payment between care levels based on
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Get your SNF coding team up to speed with this ICD-10 pneumonia reporting tutorial.
With the Patient-Driven Payment Model (PDPM) coming down the pike, understanding ICD-10 coding will be crucial to gaining your facility’s hard-earned reimbursement. That’s why we’ve promised to help prep your team by
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Get money-in-the-bank answers to solve your ophthalmology and optometry claim challenges.
Can you afford to guess when the right code could mean a substantial difference in reimbursement? Uncertain reporting is a costly gamble. Still, it happens every so often. A chart leaves you guessing. What eye
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Coding for cerumen (earwax) removal is going to get a whole lot easier in 2016.
Reason: CPT® is introducing 69209 (Removal impacted cerumen using irrigation/lavage, unilateral). This code will allow you to code for encounters when your provider removes impacted cerumen using irrigation or lavage. Previous
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“Am I at risk?” This question comes up so often when I am approached at conferences by practice managers and physicians. Many in the healthcare industry have a sense of dread when thinking about what could happen if they are targeted for a government audit
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One of your full-time physicians goes on vacation – or sabbatical or maternity leave. Your practice employs a locum tenens (lt) to fill in for the missing physician.
No problem, until you try to bill for the substitute physician’s services with Medicare – or payers who
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