Expect to see consistent use of remittance advice remark codes (RARCs) when certain types of services are billed but not paid by the Medicare administrative contractor (MAC), CMS says in transmittal 3475 to its Medicare Claims Processing Manual.

Update the list of ICD-10 diagnosis codes you’re eligible to report with a commonly billed bone mass measurement code to stave off costly denials.

To improve care and reduce quality downfalls such as hospital readmission, sharpen your assessment and care of an oft-neglected chronic condition: depression.

Routine office equipment and apparel — including physician white coats and smartphones — are easily contaminated and need to be part of infection control (IC) strategy and procedures, experts say.

If the provider or designated staff was not able to make contact within two business days post-discharge, and the contact attempts are documented, and all the other criteria for TCM are met within the 30 days after discharge, is TCM a billable event?

Practices have witnessed a sharp decline in reimbursement for bone mass measurement code 77080 (Bone density measurement using dedicated X-ray machine) over the past decade, and that pay cut appears to have led to an overall decrease in service utilization.

Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center’s recent decision to pay a $17,000 ransom in Bitcoin currency to regain access to its electronic health record (EHR) system from hackers is a nightmare scenario to any health care organization storing patient protected health information (PHI) online.