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06/13/2014

Add tip-oriented medical information and advice to your practice’s website to bring in new patients in a cost-effective way.

06/13/2014

The discount cards physician practices often hand out to patients to help offset the copayments for pricey prescription drugs are in the sights of insurance payers, which believe the cards thwart efforts to set coverage tiers to control utilization of high-cost care. It’s unclear, however, whether payers can outright ban usage of the cards.

06/13/2014
Modifier 22 (Increased procedural services) isn’t claimed a lot – in 2012, for example, it was only claimed on 154,904 procedures – but practices stand to lose revenue they deserve if they use the modifier incorrectly.
06/13/2014

Add tip-oriented medical information and advice to your practice’s website to bring in new patients in a cost-effective way.

06/06/2014

Let the new Office of Inspector General (OIG) report showing widespread downcoding serve as a warning: You gain nothing — not even protection from auditors — from the practice, which can be reduced by getting coders and doctors to work together.

06/06/2014
A new survey shows that health insurance exchanges plans are causing big problems in physician practices — requiring that you tighten up your management of patient verification and payments.
06/06/2014

Your Medicare patients got a new preventive screening benefit recently: Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) testing.

06/06/2014

Question: Can we use a locum tenens nurse practitioner to fill in for one of our NPs while she is on maternity leave?

06/06/2014

Avoid losing thousands of dollars because of underbilling for services with routine chart audits.

06/06/2014

The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) found plenty of upcoding in its recent report on E/M errors. And much of it comes from a certain type of provider.

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