Medicare Revalidation
Medical Billing Revenue Cycle Management

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...
Benefit and Payment Paramenters
Revenue Cycle Management

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...
Payment Parameters and benefit
Revenue Cycle Management

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...
affordable care act to provide Health insurance coverage
Revenue Cycle Management

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...
EHR Notifications
Health Information Technology

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...
New ICD-10 Codes
ICD-10

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 & Misbilling
Medical Billing

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 ...
Medical Billing Fraud
Medical Billing

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...
EHR Design flaws
Health Information Technology

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 Population Health Management
Population Health Management

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...