Are you documenting overtime payments properly? A federal court has ordered a Philadelphia home care agency and its owner to pay about $1.6 million in back wages and liquidated damages to 288 workers deliberately denied overtime pay. The consent judgement [...]
Plus: CMS holds up on using revised MEI cost weights in the 2023 ratesetting. With the conversion factor (CF) slated for a major cut next year, you are probably concerned about how that will impact your bottom line. Some specialties [...]
CMS should prepare for home health access to plummet. The proposed home health reimbursement cut for 2023, a gut punch of 4.2 percent, will hit all home health agencies hard if finalized. But none more so than those operating in [...]
Read the fine print, experts advise. Many doctors’ offices and other healthcare businesses feel the pain of the COVID-19 pandemic on a very personal level. If they’re not overwhelmed with telehealth appointments, they’re looking at their revenue losses and wondering [...]
Surprise IRS guidance makes grants less favorable. The complications of COVID-19 funding relief continue to pile up. This time: The Internal Revenue Service has issued a notice negating any tax benefit of the CARES Act Paycheck Protection Program loans/grants. Regarding [...]
Plus, don’t let Specialty Measure Set limit your physician’s maximum payment adjustment. It’s imperative that coders, physicians, and even practice managers are on the exact same page when it comes to Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) reporting. That’s because the [...]
Reimbursement is below cost of care already, rural provider tells CMS. If Medicare wants to increase its overall spending at a faster rate, its Home Health Prospective Payment System should certainly help achieve that goal. Why? The 1 percent pay [...]
Tip: You can report a Column 2 code with a Column 1 code – but only under certain circumstances. As of Jan. 1, ophthalmology coders have several new CPT® codes to add to their coding arsenals. And also as of Jan. [...]
Tip: You can report a Column 2 code with a Column 1 code – but only under certain circumstances. As of Jan. 1, coders have several new CPT® codes to add to their coding arsenals. And also as of Jan. [...]
Question: When we report to Medicare, what PQRS measures should we be using now that they bumped it up to nine?I am having difficulty trying to find measures that are applicable to urology. Alaska Subscriber Answer: Urology experts advise you look at [...]
