Medicare Revalidation in 5 Steps
As per Section 6401 (a) of the Affordable Care Act, all enrolled providers and suppliers are required to revalidate their Medicare enrollment information under the new enrollm...
2017 Benefit and Payment Parameters – Part 3
Our final article on the Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2017 brings you further highlights of some of the policies in the final rule.
Network Adequacy (Transparency)
Healt...
2017 Benefit and Payment Parameters – Part 2
In continuation of our previous article on the Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2017, given below are further highlights of some of the policies in the final rule.
Market Ru...
2017 Benefit and Payment Parameters – Part 1
Released on February 29, 2016, the final Health and Human Services (HHS) Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2017, sets standards for Health Insurance issuers and mar...
Multitude of EHR Notifications Adding To Physician Burnout
It takes just a jiffy to send an online message – compare that to the days gone by, when paper-based systems made sending messages an onerous task. That is an improvemen...
5,500 New ICD-10 Codes from October 2016
The medical billing coding system is about to get larger and tougher – with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CM...
Preventing Medical Overbilling and Mis-billing
Medical billing is one area that most healthcare facilities find nerve wracking, time consuming, complicated and tricky. With all those rules to follow, codes that need ...
Ways To Prevent Medical Billing Fraud
Have you ever been a victim of medical billing fraud? Medical billing fraud, especially those related to insurance billing are far more common in practices than you would thi...
Do EHR Design Flaws Lead to Errors In The Emergency Room?
Information Technology and computers are supposed to make our work easier, faster and accurate. However, the transition to digitized record systems seems to be causing a...
Survey Reveals Top Population Health Management Challenges
Population Health Management using health IT is one of the biggest goals for healthcare providers, in the current healthcare landscape. A survey conducted by HIMSS Media...
