Eli's Rehab Report
Cross Your Fingers for a Fee Schedule Fix That Sticks
Tired of your Medicare pay being doomed to drop? If HR 4213 makes it to law, the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule conversion factor would be in the green for three and a half years. Currently, Medicare providers will be slammed with a 21.29 percent cut in Medicare payments starting June 1. Details:
Rates would, then, continue to increase for 2012 and 2013 if spending growth on physician services stays within reasonable limits, with some added wiggle room for primary and preventive care, News Now continued. After 2013, rates would return to their current law levels.
Eli's Rehab Report
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Brace for Major Compliance Changes in Healthcare Reform
One guilty-until-proven-innocent provision will shutter some blameless providers, expert says.While the new healthcare reform bill [...] - Correction
Regarding Crank Your Team Conference Quality Up a Notch, in Vol. 17, No. 5, please [...] - Industry Outlook:
Get the Dish on Rehab Trends Experts Predict From Healthcare Reform
Tip: Buyers are hungry if you're looking to sell your practice.If consultants, counsel, and healthcare [...] - Clip and Save:
Adjust Your Appeals Sails Before You Invest the Time and Money
Keep your dollar amounts and deadlines close at hand.With Medicare's Recovery Audit Contractors, and other [...] - Speech Spotlight:
Make Your Stuttering Interventions the Talk of the Town
Learn easy ways to keep business knocking at your door.National Stuttering Awareness Week last month [...] - Clinical Rehab Roundup:
Hospital Therapists: Knock on Your ICU's Doors
Early physical medicine and rehabilitation for patients with acute respiratory failure: a quality improvement project. [...] - Reader Questions:
SNF Therapists: Know When a New Eval Is Warranted
Question: If a Medicare Part A resident, long or short term, who is receiving therapy [...] - Reader Questions:
Keep Your IRF Therapy Minutes in Line
Question: I'm in an IRF setting, and our Medicare contractor is National Government Services. Does [...] - News Briefs:
Cross Your Fingers for a Fee Schedule Fix That Sticks
Tired of your Medicare pay being doomed to drop? If HR 4213 makes it to [...] - News Briefs:
Time's Run Out for Red Flags Rule Compliance
No more putting off your practice's identity theft program. As of June 1, 2010, healthcare [...] - News Briefs:
New Thera-Band® Resistance Bands Go Latex-Free
Thera-Bands have been a rehab godsend but can spell disaster if your patients have latex [...] - News Briefs:
Physical Rehab and Exercise Offers More Than Meets the Eye
Not all patients do their homework, but now you can give them more reasons to [...]
