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01/27/2014
The amount of money your practice — or individual providers in your practice — was paid by Medicare could become public knowledge now that CMS has said it will consider the release of individual provider payment information.
01/27/2014
Save your practice time and money by insisting on receiving payments electronically from all payers.
01/27/2014
Use modifiers GW (Service unrelated to terminal condition) and GV (Attending physician not employed or paid under agreement by the patient’s hospice provider) for your hospice patient-related claims to avoid Medicare denials as payers eye hospice claims for wrongful payments.
01/27/2014
New electronic health records (EHR) safety guides from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) show that even a system that appears to be in good working order is only as good as its back-up.
01/27/2014
A bill unveiled on Jan. 15 by Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the soon-to-be new chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, suggests that the future of the federal health care program is in coordinated care models and pay for performance.
 
01/27/2014
Denial rates for 99214 (Level 4 established patient office visit) and 99215 (Level 5 established patient office visit) increased almost across the board for the 10 specialties that billed the codes most often in 2012.
01/27/2014
Save time calculating the date when your 90-day global period has ended by using this calendar for 2014.

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