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04/02/2013
With no movement from Congress to avert 2% Medicare reimbursement cuts required by sequestration, expect your Medicare revenue to drop for claims with dates of service starting April 1.
04/01/2013
A narrow majority of billers and billing supervisors got salary increases in 2012, according to Part B News’ nearly 350-respondent salary survey. But here’s the catch: Most of those billing specialists and managers who got pay raises also took on additional job responsibilities.
 
04/01/2013
If your clinical staff are ignoring their electronic health records (EHR) system alerts – a potentially disastrous habit – examine your workflows before making technical changes to the system, experts advise.
 
04/01/2013
Stability was the watchword for CMS’ second-quarter 2013 average sales price (ASP) list recently released by CMS. Price rises and drops were mostly modest; only two drugs were removed from the list; and a few popular drugs that saw big movement in the first quarter have seen their prices normalized.
 
04/01/2013
As a part of Part B News’ salary survey coverage, the following graphs represent how billers’ and billing managers’ salaries are affected by education level and type of job duties.
 
04/01/2013
If you’re looking for the next wave of policy changes from Medicare, check out the programs that private payers are putting in place. The private sector’s role in advancing health care reform is to drive the innovation and investment into ideas that will ultimately impact Medicare, a private payer representative told industry experts and media at a panel discussion March 20 sponsored by Medicare Newsgroup.

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