Due to Covid-19 Crisis Providers Can Skip 2019 CMS MIPS Reporting

By |2020-05-28T18:27:58+00:00May 5th, 2020|

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, CMS has announced relief measures for providers who are bound to participate in its quality reporting programs, including the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). First, CMS is extending the deadline for submission of 2019 MIPS data from March 31, 2020, to April 30, 2020. Second, and perhaps most significantly, if [...]

Are Your Remote Coders Secure? Google Warns of Covid-19 Cyber Threats

By |2020-04-23T06:41:16+00:00April 23rd, 2020|

As many healthcare organizations seek to have their billing and coding staffs work remotely, active attempts to compromise their organization's data, via phishing and malware, are being perpetrated by foreign actors. While many organizations seek to keep some continuity by allowing their team to continue performing services from home, they have left themselves open to [...]

CMS Delays New Payment Model for Emergency Care Due To Covid-19

By |2020-04-15T05:05:43+00:00April 15th, 2020|

CMS has delayed the start date of its Emergency Triage, Treat and Transport model from May 1 until this fall. CMS selected 205 participants in February for the five-year ET3 model. CMS said it is delaying the start date because participants now are focused on responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. The new model aims to give ambulance care teams [...]

Your Coders Are Home, Now What? 

By |2020-04-14T05:12:33+00:00April 14th, 2020|

3 Major Considerations for Transitioning Your Coder to Working from Home  If you’re one of the many healthcare organizations that was rushed into sending your coders to work remotely from home, you know that right now business is not operating as usual.  As a remote coding services provider for over 25 years, The Coding Network [...]

Pitfalls of Reassigning Coders to New Specialties During COVID-19

By |2020-04-14T04:57:15+00:00April 14th, 2020|

During the current Covid-19 crisis it might seem like a wise idea to reassign coders from elective specialties to specialties that are currently seeing an increase in volume.  We have resources in one part of the organization that are not being utilized, why not move them over temporarily to where we need extra resources?  Unfortunately [...]