Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement
HIPAA STANDARD DATEBOOK
Your Heads-Up On Upcoming HIPAA Requirements Mark your calendars: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has given health care providers a hint about when they can expect agency rulemaking on some of the less-known provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. According to the Department of Health and Human Services' Semiannual Regulatory Agenda, HIPAA-related regs in store for the coming months include: Lesson Learned: Keep in mind that your next big HIPAA compliance deadline is most likely Oct. 16, 2003, when the electronic transactions standards go into effect for most organizations.
Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement
- Medicare:
BUSHIES SOFTENING ON MEDICARE REFORM?
So far, House and Senate bills being drafted to add a prescription drug benefit are [...] - Rehab:
WILL CONGRESS WALLOP REHAB CAPS A KNOCKOUT PUNCH?
The answer could mean the world to many facilities With the July 1 implementation date [...] - ESRD:
CMS LAUNCHES ESRD DEMO
A new four-year Medicare demonstration program offers end-stage renal disease providers two reimbursement options designed [...] - HIPAA:
HIPAA STANDARD DATEBOOK
Your Heads-Up On Upcoming HIPAA Requirements Mark your calendars: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid [...] - Hospitals:
Pay-For-Quality Hospital Demo In Works
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services hopes to soon announce a demonstration that would [...] - Trends:
HIGHER COSTS, MORE COST SHARING IN HSC FORECAST
Health care costs continue to increase rapidly, employers are shifting more costs to employees, and [...] - KNOW WHAT'S COMING ON THE REGULATORY FRONT:
HHS PLANS NEW RULES ON SELF-REFERRAL, KICKBACKS AND EMTALA
Physicians' business relationships with other health care providers could be in for a shakeup this [...] - HIPAA:
PROVIDERS SEEK HIPAA TCS ASSURANCES
Are you ready for what the Oct. 16 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act transactions [...] - Ambulance:
AMBULANCE SUBSCRIPTION PLAN STEERS PAST KICKBACK PERILS
Ambulance companies that charge an annual subscription fee in lieu of collecting Medicare Part B [...] - DME:
DIALYSIS SUPPLIERS SHOULD BRACE FOR CMS-382 SCRUTINY
Suppliers of home dialysis equipment should do their best to make sure their Medicare clients' [...] - Coverage:
LOCAL COVERAGE POLICIES UNDER ATTACK
Confused by your Medicare contractor's local coverage policies? If the General Accounting Office gets its [...] - Fraud & Abuse:
SENTENCING APPEAL CAN'T SAVE SUPPLIER
The turning point in the campaign against health care fraud and abuse - the August [...] - PROGRAM MEMO ROUNDUP
Providers and contractors alike have been confused about certain elements of billing for diabetes outpatient [...] - BILL WATCH
The following Senate bills were introduced: S. 1113. A bill to amend title XVIII of [...] - REGISTER WATCH
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations will serve as a national accrediting organization [...]
