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03/18/2024
CMS retroactively added two new CPT codes for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine administration to the Medicare physician fee schedule files, according to a recent MLN Connects newsletter. The codes affect services rendered on or after October 6, 2023.
03/18/2024
Nearly half of eligible Medicare Part B patients received a routine office visit via telehealth in the early days of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), and while the percentage decreased in ensuing years it still remained well above pre-PHE standards.
03/11/2024
A health system was forced to return more than $11 million to Medicare based on botched annual wellness visit (AWV) claims. You stand a better chance of avoiding this kind of disaster if you button down your internal compliance protocols, and you can limit the damage by negotiating strong indemnification in your billing services contract.
03/11/2024
A new study shows that many health care providers are seeing racial discrimination in their workplace — against patients, and against themselves and colleagues. Even if your clinical staff don’t consciously practice discrimination, experts suggest that you take steps to see where it may be baked into your care, and to assure minority patients that their care is as important to you as anyone else’s.
03/11/2024
In February, one of the most wide-ranging health care hacks of all time hit Change Healthcare, a technology company owned by United Healthcare that handles health information, and its effects continue to be felt by Medicare providers.
03/11/2024
Check your providers’ documentation to make sure they and coders understand the context for visit complexity code G2211 (PBN 2/5/24). While the add-on code can be appended to office/other outpatient encounters (99202-99215), note that there are strict limits.
03/11/2024
Hacking events are an ever-present threat, as the sprawling Blackcat ransomware event underscores. Last October, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a cybersecurity toolkit that includes resources tailored for the health care and public health sector.
03/11/2024
While practices continue to ramp up the number of annual wellness visits (AWV) they provide to patients, they witnessed a payment hole in 2022, in what appears to be a demographically driven discrepancy.
03/04/2024
When a criminal or civil case embroils a practice, subpoenas or court orders requesting or demanding records may come to the front desk. You may face different types of requests that can be made in connection with the case in question, and it’s vital that your staff understand the difference.
03/04/2024
Reagan E. Boyce, partner with the Chamblee Ryan firm in Dallas, offers five handy suggestions for situations that may arise when you practice is served papers.

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