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Sleeping on meaningful use? 4 ways to reboot your compliance

04/18/2014

ICD-10 may be delayed, but meaningful use standards won’t be, say experts — now’s the time to get back on track to avoid an up to 2% payment penalty in 2015.

Review your EOBs to watch for payer trends on modifier reimbursements

04/18/2014

by: Jennifer Clampet

Don’t let rumors about payers’ acceptance of certain modifiers prevent you from appending modifiers and capturing your appropriate reimbursements.

Part B News briefs

04/18/2014

Lab sues FTC, no sequester relief for physicians, and help with modifiers.

Some specialties see denial rates rise for 99291; others see fewer denials

04/18/2014

by: Karen Long

Internal medicine, critical care and family practice saw jumps in denials for critical care code 99291 in 2012 from previous years.

7 ways Medicare claims data can improve your practice’s reputation, A/R

04/14/2014

by: Julia Kyles

Spy on your competitors, determine whether you’re an outlier for your location and see what percentile your Medicare charges fall into for each procedure you perform. Those are just three things you can do with the provider-identified claims data CMS released on April 9.

Navigate the Medicare claims data

04/14/2014

by: Julia Kyles

Want to check the services a doctor billed to Medicare, find the 50th percentile Medicare payment amount for a service or see what doctors of the same specialty in your city charged to Medicare? You can do all of that and more with the newly released claims data files, and you can do it quickly if you know which file contains the information you need.

Part B News survey: Practices stuck in wait-and-see mode with ICD-10 delay

04/14/2014

by: Roy Edroso

Most practices are reseting their ICD-10 efforts, according to a Part B News survey of more than 1,000 respondents — and for many, that means a pause in training.

Obamacare insurance ‘grace period’ shows need to lock down payment

04/14/2014

by: Roy Edroso

Don’t write off a whole class of newly insured beneficiaries just to minimize expected revenue loss from an insurance premium “grace period” allowed by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Instead, tighten up your front desk and collection practices because the grace period likely isn’t your only collections problem.

Guest column: Delay doesn’t mean to put off ICD-10 preparedness for the future

04/14/2014

by: Jennifer Searfoss

With a delay of at least a year, what is a practice manager to do when even lawmakers aren’t taking the ICD-10 implementation deadline seriously?

IT report focuses regulatory efforts on medical devices, away from EHR

04/14/2014

by: Scott Kraft

Good news for physician practices — a long-awaited report laying the groundwork for a regulatory IT framework recommends no additional regulations for the technology most commonly used in physician practices.

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