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10/06/2014
The first batch of Open Payments data connecting your physicians to financial arrangements with certain businesses was published online Sept. 30. Your physicians’ financial data may not be on the CMS website now even if it was collected, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be there eventually.
 
10/06/2014
CMS is planning some big changes for the Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System (PECOS) in 2015 — including letting providers change their business names within the system, having those changes automatically feed into other systems and requiring all Part D providers to enroll or opt out in PECOS.
10/06/2014
You’ll get 17% less when billing a popular code for Vitamin B12 injections, according to the average sales price (ASP) drug pricing update for the fourth quarter of 2014.
 
10/06/2014

The top ten gainers and losers in CMS' Q4 ASP drug pricing release.

10/06/2014
Don’t bill for pre-operative visits when surgeries are canceled unless you can establish the service as being medically necessary on its own.
 
10/06/2014
If one of your physicians leaves the practice under a cloud, even if his or her alleged offense directly affects your patients, be careful about releasing information about the situation to patients and staff until you have legal clearance to do so.
 
10/06/2014
While almost 62% of Part B providers had denied claims overturned at the first level of appeal, just 18% had success at the second level.
 

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