Are RAPs on a going-going-gone trajectory? It sure looks like it.
Your billing department will have its hands full with the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) changes slated for next year. But all signs suggest more is
Are RAPs on a going-going-gone trajectory? It sure looks like it.
Your billing department will have its hands full with the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) changes slated for next year. But all signs suggest more is yet to come — and come soon — which will
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Don’t let top claim errors for your specialty sink your bottom line this year.
With so many coding rules and compliance regulations to follow, it’s easy to lose sight of correct coding and billing from time to time. That appears to have been the case in
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Astronomical stakes have yet to deter abysmal results.
Does your home health agency provide services known to have high national error rates? If so, you might want to take extra care to stay off the TPE radar.
Back in November, HHH Medicare Administrative Contractor CGS reported that
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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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