Question: I was shopping for a new wireless router for our small medical practice, and I was wondering if you could explain what Wi-Fi 6E is and if it’s better for healthcare organizations? Montana Subscriber Answer: Wi-Fi 6E allows users to have [...]
Check out the agency’s AI Playbook and what’s ahead with emerging tech. As AI evolves and becomes more sophisticated, it continues to reshape healthcare. And Medicare has a strategy to better help you use the technology and control it. The [...]
Plus: Get to know the elements of responsible AI. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has been exploring the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in recent years. The agency has developed an AI Playbook, [...]
Where do your gastroenterologists stand when it comes to national trends? Every GI practice has heard that Medicare auditors look at coding trends and bell curves to find outliers, but it’s hard to know exactly what that means in the [...]
SNFs need to be extra careful about penalized noncompliance. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released updated specifics on the violation fines associated with civil monetary penalties (CMPs). Remember, the CMP program is designed to penalize providers, [...]
Increase was effective Nov. 15. As practice costs continue to rise due to inflation, you may want to add another line item to your budget — because civil monetary penalty (CMP) amounts for HIPAA breaches just went up. Update: On [...]
Warning: HHS’ penalty numbers went into effect on Nov. 15. If the sting of inflation is hurting on your practice budget, we’ve got more bad news. The feds just upped the HIPAA penalty amounts — and the numbers aren’t pretty. [...]
COVID-19 and GI changes top the list. Don’t miss out on diagnosis coding updates — your successful claims payment could depend on accurately documenting medical necessity using new codes. With nearly 160 ICD-10-CM 2022 code changes, let our experts help [...]
Find new and expanded codes for detailed reporting. With the 2022 ICD-10-CM update that takes effect Oct. 1, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) presents some new COVID codes and reporting instructions, as well as multiple system [...]
Hint: The revised NCD lowers the blood pressure threshold for hypertension. CMS recently made changes to the national coverage policy (NCD) for ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM), a non-invasive diagnostic test that uses a device to track a patient’s blood [...]
