Billing for services while traveling is a common violation. The hunt for Medicaid home health fraud continues unabated, as evidenced by recent cases. Allied Health Systems in Springfield, Massachusetts, and its CEO Henry Azzun submitted false and/or fraudulent claims to [...]
Watch out: Bonuses may put you in an overtime danger zone. You’d better dot your i’s and cross your t’s when it comes to employee compensation, because wage and hour compliance is in the crosshairs for home care providers. Multiple [...]
Hint: Note which materials the physician referenced if choosing a face-to-face counseling code. Did you know you can report both preventive medicine counseling codes 99401-99404 as well as a problem-based evaluation and management (E/M) visit on the same day? If [...]
Tip: Don’t use 99401-99404 if the patient is ill. Fact: You can report preventive medicine counseling codes 99401-99404 on the same day as a problem-based E/M visit when your ob-gyn counsels the patient on an unrelated preventive issue. Learn how [...]
Through waivers and other means, CMS is trying to let facilities focus on care. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is easing certain requirements during the public health emergency for the COVID-19 pandemic. From staff training to reporting, [...]
Tip: Don’t use 99401-99404 if the patient is ill. Fact: You can report preventive medicine counseling codes 99401-99404 on the same day as a problem-based E/M visit when your ob-gyn counsels the patient on an unrelated preventive issue. Learn how to [...]
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 [...]
OB infections are different. With so many new diagnosis codes that could impact your general surgery practice, we’re serving up “round 2” to make sure you’re ready for the Oct. 1 ICD-10-CM 2019 implementation date. Hopefully you read last month’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 [...]
Dial into these revisions for last year’s non-pressure ulcer codes. CMS recently published its list of the new ICD-10 2019 codes, but they won’t go into effect until Oct. 1, 2018. “This has been a lucky year for podiatry in [...]
