Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement
Doctor's Scrawl Could Spell Doom For Practice
Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement
- COMPLIANCE:
Compliance Statements Sate Hungry HIPAA Auditors
Providers can deal with possible HIPAA violations through 3 retaliatory methods.
Preparing your plan of action [...] - LABS:
How To Bounce Back From A CLIA Deficiency
Warning: All talk and no action could land a lab in hot water.
A deficiency doesn't [...] - DME:
Analysis Casts Doubt On Competitive Bidding Savings
Economist raises concerns about anti-competitive aspects of CMS initiative.
Durable medical equipment providers have a fresh [...] - PHYSICIANS:
Doctor's Scrawl Could Spell Doom For Practice
Trouble lurks when two out of three reviewers can't read handwriting.
Illegible handwriting isn't just [...] - APPEALS:
Prepare Now For Quicker 2006 Appeals Turnaround
Providers that don't learn new rules early could be sorry all next year.
Starting this January, [...] - APPEALS:
Here's One Appeals Change Providers Should Notice
Medicare carriers will send appeal denial notes.
Starting in January, when a Medicare carrier rejects [...] - MEDICARE ADVANTAGE:
MedPAC- Remove Medicare Advantage Advantages
Commission wants MA benchmarks to line up with FFS costs.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission has [...] - COMPLIANCE:
Inform Patients Up Front To Avoid Payment Surprises
Denials shouldn't catch anyone off guard.
Just because a provider knows that not every procedure, service [...] - HOSPITALS:
Hospital Association Raises NPI Questions
Many facilities still in dark about subpart IDs, other NPI issues.
While physicians have been wondering [...] - ENFORCEMENT WATCH:
Bogus Diagnosis Scam May Send Physician Up River
Medicare nabs doc who treated nonexistent skin cancer ... repeatedly.
Health care fraud goes deeper than [...] - PHYSICIANS:
CMS Increases Physician Scarcity Area Incentives
Docs in critical access hospitals eligible for payout.
If you are a physician whose county [...] - BILL WATCH
The following bills were introduced in the House: HR 1729. A bill to amend title [...]
