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Proposed change to home health face-to-face rule could mean less work for docs

07/21/2014

Your practice may have to only provide a medical record — not have to have your physician write a narrative — to justify a patient’s eligibility for home health services.

Increase your billing success: Let billing staff be experts on payer policies

07/21/2014

by: Jennifer Clampet

Implement an approach to your medical claims process that allows your coders and billers to develop an expertise in dealing with specific payers and their policies to avoid unnecessary denials and lost reimbursements.

Avoid pitfalls by composing, enforcing proper HIPAA policies, procedures

07/21/2014

by: Roy Edroso

Don’t sustain a costly HIPAA violation just because you failed to revise a simple written document.

Maximize use of Open Payment dispute process before data goes public

07/21/2014

by: Roy Edroso

You now can track and dispute what manufacturers have reported about their financial relationships with your doctors before it goes public. You also can appoint a representative to handle the work for your doctors, but if you want to change the data, you have to get the manufacturer who gave the payments to agree.

Embrace trend of patient use of technology to improve patient care

07/21/2014

by: Scott Kraft

Patients are increasingly turning to technology to monitor their own health, compile health data including vital signs and cholesterol levels and even administer their own strep tests. Providers would be wise to embrace the technologies as well and give patient-oriented care based on the advanced knowledge of each patient.

Proposed 2015 Medicare physician fee schedule estimated impact by specialty*

07/21/2014

by: Part B News staff

Look to this chart from the proposed 2015 Medicare physician fee schedule to see the estimated impact of the rule's changes on your payments by specialty.

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