Practices subject to the value modifier in 2015 can find out whether they’ll get a payment cut from newly online 2013 Quality and Resource Use Reports (QRURs).

If you’re planning to use an online scheduling tool such as ZocDoc, avoid potential HIPAA disasters by ensuring the vendors understand their patient privacy responsibilities.

Question: In a new electronic health record (EHR) system, when a patient doesn’t have a medical history, the medical history portion just shows up blank. The physicians in my practice want to know if they click “verify” on the note (aka verifying no medical history), will that still satisfy requirements for the E/M documentation?

Question: Procedure code 19083 describes a breast biopsy with ultrasound guidance. If an ultrasound is done prior to starting the procedure to find the spots that need to be biopsied, can that ultrasound be charged separately from the ultrasound-guided biopsy and clip placement?

If you’re seeing patients who are inpatients elsewhere, whether at hospitals or skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), make sure you’ve got their details straight or you may wind up with denials.

You may start seeing physicians from your Medicare administrative contractor (MAC) showing up at administrative law judge (ALJ) hearings to argue for why your appeal ought to fail.

Just 7% of HIPAA complaints the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) received in 2013 resulted in an investigation that determined no violation occurred, according to the agency’s data.

The cash value of the published and unpublished records in Open Payments has been adjusted upward by CMS.