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08/19/2010

Your patients should have a choice of whether to receive Medicare's new annual wellness visit or the current Welcome to Medicare visit during their first 12 months of Medicare eligibility, according to comments filed by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) in response to the proposed 2011 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule.

08/19/2010

You'll soon have a forum to appeal a CMS decision to deny you a Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) bonus. CMS proposes in the 2011 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PBN 7/12/10) to establish an informal appeals process through the program's Quality Net Help Desk starting in 2011. Here's how you do it.

08/19/2010

You and your patients got some good news from the new health reform law when it comes to dealing with health plans - it will be easier for you to appeal adverse decisions from health plans and new appeal rights will be afforded.

08/19/2010

You and your peers have flooded CMS with questions on how to demonstrate meaningful use of electronic health records (EHR) systems in order to score up to $44,000 per provider in federal incentives. The agency has compiled a list of the 10 most common questions "that don't have immediately obvious answers," according to one official. Here's a partial rundown.

08/19/2010

Your peers across the country took measures large and small to tighten their belts and boost efficiency in the face of this year's pay-fix saga and the extended debate and passage of health reform. However, many subscribers tell Part B News they won't touch the nuclear option of refusing to see new Medicare patients.

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