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In the latest Part B News we discuss how to deal with a stolen prescription pad in your practice. Years before he became vice president and chief medical informatics officer at Hartford HealthCare, Spencer Erman, M.D., was a family practitioner when he had a pad stolen; he tells us how he handled it, and what he learned.
After a brief shutdown and a Rand Paul minifilibuster, Congress passed a “Bipartisan Budget Bill” and, as the issue of Part B News released just before the vote predicted, it addressed two big Part B payment issues that we’ve been covering: the expiration of the Work GPCI floor and the expiration of the therapy cap exception.

Here’s a bit of news that should cheer up teaching physicians: Starting next month, they will not need to re-write E/M notes created by medical students.

In Part B News this week we talk about sexual harassment policies and procedures for the medical practice in the age of #MeToo. If you want to know more about how to get yours in shape, check out this Q&A with Audrey Mross, a former HR executive turned employment lawyer and partner at the Dallas-based firm Munck Wilson Mandala. 

CMS has called on providers to solve problematic balance billing issues for patients enrolled in the qualified Medicare beneficiary (QMB) program, yet a key part of the puzzle -- identifying a patient's coinsurance deductible amounts -- appears to be plaguing certain payers.
 

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