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06/14/2013

Primary care providers: Pay close attention to your state’s Medicaid website or letters from your Medicaid agency or you could miss deadlines to get increased payments that are retroactive to Jan. 1.

06/14/2013

Primary care providers in Alabama participating in a program to match Medicaid rates to Medicare reimbursement will see almost $58 more per new patient E/M visit (99205) in 2013.

06/14/2013

Capture patient payments by using a “credit card on file” (CCOF) system that stores credit card information and allows you to charge the card with patient approval.

06/14/2013

Readers responding to a Part B News survey overwhelmingly focused on trimming expenses to offset the financial impact of the 2% sequestration cut. But slashing to save isn’t always the best option.

06/14/2013

Answers to three new frequently asked questions on CMS’ website give providers more leeway with what they can include in a clinical summary, what the clinical summary format should be and whether they can use data from outside the reporting period in the numerator.

06/14/2013
by: Penny Noyes

A doctor’s office would like to provide out-of-network patients with a reduced price for the first visit. How would insurance companies deal with that? Would they withhold payments for future visits?

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