Part B Insider (Multispecialty) Coding Alert
Revalidation Requests Don't Trump Standard CMS Processes
Plus: Physician pleads guilty in Medicare fraud scheme Submit your usual CMS enrollment changes in a timely manner, or you'll be sorry. That's the word from CMS, which is taking aim at practices that are using the revalidation process as an excuse to drag their heels about updating routine information. "The Medicare provider enrollment revalidation effort does not change other aspects of the enrollment process," CMS says in an e-mail message to providers. "Providers should continue to submit routine changes -- address updates, reassignments, additions to practices, changes in authorized officials, information updates, etc. -- as they always have." Even if you receive a revalidation request, you need to submit your changes separately from your revalidation information, CMS stresses.
Part B Insider (Multispecialty) Coding Alert
- E-Prescribing Penalty:
CMS Finalizes Four New Ways to Avoid 2012 E-Prescribing Payment Penalty
Get your exemption application to CMS no later than Nov. 1 if you want to [...] - Part B Payment:
CMS Offers Great News With Fee Schedule Changes
Boost co-surgery, multiple surgery, and bilateral surgery pay for these select procedures.You'll no longer have [...] - Patient Privacy:
Avoid These HIPAA Land Mines Involving Your Practioners' Cell Phones
Contacting on-call physicians via text or mobile phone? Make sure those communications are HIPAA-compliant.Mobile phones [...] - Physician Note:
Revalidation Requests Don't Trump Standard CMS Processes
Plus: Physician pleads guilty in Medicare fraud schemeSubmit your usual CMS enrollment changes in a [...] - In other news
A Florida physician is the latest practitioner to plead guilty as part of the government's [...] - Reader Question:
Be Aware of When Global Applies
Question: If a code has global period designation in the fee schedule which implies that [...] - Reader Question:
Don't Jump to Coding Conclusions
Question: A patient presents to the emergency department after he cut the tip of his [...] - Reader Question:
Assign 3 'Vitals' to Just 1 Exam Bullet
Question: I read your previous article on "double dipping" with great interest (the Insider, Vol. [...] - Reader Question:
Labs Should Get Reason for Urinalysis
Question: A physician client routinely sends our lab orders for "screening" urinalysis for Medicare patients [...]
