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05/16/2013

Getting patient copays up front is among the lowest-hanging fruit in the medical business. Yet many practices fail to do it — mainly because their patients refuse to pay. But experts say you can alter your copay collection process in such a way that they almost can’t refuse.

05/16/2013

Your practice could be missing out on revenue from CMS’ new transitional care management (TCM) codes if you are not partnering with home health agencies.

05/16/2013

According to CMS’ first-quarter National Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) edits, the following codes are bundled with transitional care management codes (TCM), 99495–99496:

05/16/2013

Want to plug your patients into email and text messaging but are worried about privacy? Your best bet to avoid HIPAA violations may be to adopt the most restrictive standards for using them — or not use them at all.

05/16/2013

Practices need back-up plans if their vendors say they won’t be ready for ICD-10, give vague answers about their preparedness or don’t respond at all.

05/16/2013

These graphs illustrate the denial rates for physician visits to patients who are prescribed home health care as well as certification and recertification of that care.

05/16/2013

An advanced notice of proposed rulemaking from HHS suggests the agency is open to using HIPAA as an avenue to change regulations to allow the federal government to collect more gun information from states — information that may be in your patient medical records — but quick pushback from critics suggests it won’t happen.

05/16/2013

For the first time in Barack Obama’s presidency, CMS has a Senate-confirmed CMS administrator after Marilyn Tavenner was approved by the Senate on a 91-7 vote on May 15. Tavenner has served as the acting administrator since December 2011.

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