Getting your Medicare certification through an accrediting organization (AO) may no longer safeguard your survey results information. The problem: AOs “currently do not make their survey reports and accompanying [Plans of Correction] publicly available,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid [...]
Getting your Medicare certification through an accrediting organization (AO) may no longer safeguard your survey results information. The problem: AOs “currently do not make their survey reports and accompanying [Plans of Correction] publicly available,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid [...]
You'd better watch how you're paying your home health aides, or you could end up owing tens of thousands of dollars in back pay like one Memphis home care provider. Taylor Brown Gardens Healthcare has agreed to pay $66,694 to [...]
But new wound VAC codes won't bring in any reimbursement Medicare's 2005 Physician Fee Schedule rings in the new year with healthy relative value units (RVUs) for most new CPT codes. But if you were expecting debridement-quality payment for your [...]
New Pacemaker Codes Cross The Finish Line for Use in 2003 CPT 2003, which goes into effect Jan. 1, brings substantial changes for the cardiology coder, including three new codes and one revised code that will alter the way you [...]
Family practices can now receive reimbursement for intravenous immune globulin treatment (IVIg) on Medicare patients with five specific mucocutaneous blistering diseases. "Although these are rare diseases, we sometimes see patients with them," says Daniel Fick, MD, director of risk management and [...]
