Part B News
06/06/2014
A new survey shows that health insurance exchanges plans are causing big problems in physician practices — requiring that you tighten up your management of patient verification and payments.
06/06/2014

Your Medicare patients got a new preventive screening benefit recently: Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) testing.

06/06/2014

Question: Can we use a locum tenens nurse practitioner to fill in for one of our NPs while she is on maternity leave?

06/06/2014

Avoid losing thousands of dollars because of underbilling for services with routine chart audits.

06/06/2014

The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) found plenty of upcoding in its recent report on E/M errors. And much of it comes from a certain type of provider.

06/06/2014

Use this tool, provided by Nancy Enos, consultant and coding educator at Enos Medical Coding in Warwick, R.I., to ensure proper E/M coding. 

05/26/2014
Billing supervisors and billing specialists got solid raises in 2013, according to Part B News’ salary survey – with supervisors making much more than the folks who work for them. 
05/26/2014
A CMS proposed rule suggests that the agency is becoming attentive to eligible providers’ (EPs’) complaints about vendors not being ready to support their meaningful use adoption. 
05/26/2014
Visit your local retail-based clinic, such as CVS Caremark MinuteClinics, to form a relationship with the clinic providers and secure new business.
 
 
05/26/2014
Create a process for seeing patients with simple problems quickly to compete with retail clinics and keep your patients.
 

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