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06/24/2013
Want to plug your patients into email and text messaging but are worried about privacy? Your best bet to avoid HIPAA violations may be to adopt the most restrictive standards for using them – or not use them at all.
06/24/2013

The denial rates for all but one of the subsequent nursing facility visit codes (99307–99310) saw increases from 2010 to 2011, the latest Medicare data available.

 
06/14/2013

Primary care providers: Pay close attention to your state’s Medicaid website or letters from your Medicaid agency or you could miss deadlines to get increased payments that are retroactive to Jan. 1.

06/14/2013

Primary care providers in Alabama participating in a program to match Medicaid rates to Medicare reimbursement will see almost $58 more per new patient E/M visit (99205) in 2013.

06/14/2013

Capture patient payments by using a “credit card on file” (CCOF) system that stores credit card information and allows you to charge the card with patient approval.

06/14/2013

Readers responding to a Part B News survey overwhelmingly focused on trimming expenses to offset the financial impact of the 2% sequestration cut. But slashing to save isn’t always the best option.

06/14/2013

Answers to three new frequently asked questions on CMS’ website give providers more leeway with what they can include in a clinical summary, what the clinical summary format should be and whether they can use data from outside the reporting period in the numerator.

06/14/2013
by: Penny Noyes

A doctor’s office would like to provide out-of-network patients with a reduced price for the first visit. How would insurance companies deal with that? Would they withhold payments for future visits?

06/06/2013

Take time now to make sure your documentation is in order before the June 30 e-prescribing (e-Rx) deadline to avoid a 2% cut in 2014 — even if you’ve met standards or qualified for a hardship exemption.

06/06/2013

Before slashing at expenses to deal with sequestration cuts to Medicare payments, make sure you’re collecting every dollar that you can.

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