Get to know how these new CMS proposed rules might affect your practice. Fee schedule changes to most evaluation and management (E/M) services have been relatively safe from CMS intervention over the past few years. As for 2019, however, it’s [...]
Hint: Proposal causes one pulmonary practice in our sample to lose $93,000 in one year. Pulmonology practices have been able to rest easy during the past few years’ worth of fee schedule changes, but this year may have thrown a [...]
Take control of your BA, use multi-layered encryption methods. Yet another HIPAA breach case has involved the misdeeds of a healthcare provider’s business associate (BA), giving you one more reason to refine your BA agreements (BAAs) and ensure that your [...]
Beware: An additional state AG has healthcare data breaches in its crosshairs. Yet another HIPAA breach case has involved the misdeeds of a healthcare provider’s business associate (BA), giving you one more reason to refine your BA agreements (BAAs) and [...]
Distinguish rules for 88342, +88343. The CPT® 2014 promise of billing immunohistochemistry (IHC) stains per block was too good to be true — at least for Medicare. Instead of accepting revised and new CPT® 2014 codes 88342 (Immunohistochemistry or immunocytochemistry, [...]
Question: In a patient who was diagnosed a zone 1 laceration of the left index finger, our surgeon did a repair of FDP tendon with a button pull-out technique. How can we report this procedure?Kansas SubscriberAnswer: For the repair of [...]
OIG Recovers $3.4 Billion in First 6 Months of Fiscal Year 2011 Citing a "period of intense activity," Inspector General Daniel R. Levinson offered his Semiannual Report to Congress on June 1, unveiling the news that the OIG collected $3.4 [...]
Latest OIG report to Congress highlights HHA therapy fraud case. Citing a "period of intense activity," Inspector General Daniel Levinson offered his Semiannual Report to Congress on June 1, unveiling the news that the HHS Office of Inspector General collected [...]
Plus: Sleep Clinic Pays $650,000 to Settle False Claims Allegations.Citing a "period of intense activity," Inspector General Daniel R. Levinson offered his Semiannual Report to Congress on June 1, unveiling the news that the OIG collected $3.4 billion between October [...]
Question: A 60-year-old patient reports to the ED with a bandaged left hand. The patient says she was cleaning out the blades of her snow blower and cut her left index finger; the wound is wrapped in gauze, but it [...]
