Caution: Disregarding HIPAA rules can lead to violations. With cybersecurity concerns dominating the HIPAA landscape, your practice may rightly be focusing on data safety and IT-related issues. However, you shouldn’t discount the importance of basic HIPAA compliance such as the [...]
Hint: Ignoring the HIPAA requirements can land you in hot water. Protecting your patients’ personal information and health data is the central point of HIPAA. But, what you may not realize is that how you dispose of PHI is another [...]
Patient recruiters feature in fraud cases. Texas has produced two more guilty verdicts related to home health fraud. In a three-day trial, a Houston federal jury convicted Colony Home Health Services owner Alfred Olotin Alatan and Milten Medical Clinic owner [...]
Tip: Make compliance with federal regs a priority. It’s no secret that healthcare is a top target of federal enforcers. And with huge takedowns dominating the news, you might think that the nation’s watchdogs only go after management and clinicians [...]
Saying you just followed orders won’t protect you from individual liability. It’s not just owners and top executives taking the heat for fraud and abuse — billers, coders, and other support staff are also under the gun for false claims. [...]
Federal agencies are pursuing coders, billers, and practice managers under the False Claims Act. Preparing and submitting claims for reimbursement is a crucial part of the nation’s healthcare system as it is currently designed. But when the claims are submitted [...]
Pay attention to all the options for reporting the drug. If you ever code for pain management services, you should be quite familiar with trigger point injection (TPI) claims. Maximizing your claim includes knowing whether to separately report the drug [...]
Code separately for TPI drugs — provided you know how. To ethically max out your claim, you’ll need to know whether to report drug supply separately on your trigger point injection (TPI) claims. Further, knowing which muscle groups providers commonly [...]
You should be able to code separately for TPI drugs. In an effort to code as completely as you can, you’ll need to know whether to report drug supply separately on your trigger point injection (TPI) claims. Further, knowing which [...]
Tip: Double check every detail of your patients’ information. You might have moved into the New Year with goals for improving things in your personal life, but have you set new goals for improving your practice’s bottom line in 2016? [...]
