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03/18/2024
Fallout from the Change Healthcare hack continues. Experts advise that even if you’re not actively caught up in it, you should take steps to ensure that if your practice experiences downhill effects — whether in cybersecurity, data security or business resiliency — the danger to your practice will be reduced.
03/18/2024
Watch out for edits to a range of new codes that debuted Jan. 1 in the upcoming updates to the National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) files. Your practice could see unexpected denials when the edits go into effect April 1.
03/18/2024
In the March 11 issue, Part B News investigated how you can implement guidance from the compliance toolkit released by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in November. This issue delivers additional tips for implementing cybersecurity best practices.
03/18/2024
In the March 4 issue, Part B News covered what practice personnel should know about handling legal papers such as subpoenas and court orders. One of the trickier questions is when it’s appropriate to give the requester all they ask for and when it’s not only inappropriate, but forbidden. Providing a granular analysis is Paul F. Schmeltzer, a health care attorney with Clark Hill in Los Angeles.
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.

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