Keyboarding Injury? ICD-10’s Got That Covered
The much delayed launch of ICD-10 code implementation finally occurred on Oct 1st, 2015. The new International Classification of Diseases, Revision 10 inflates coding options by the [...]
Final 2016 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Released
The MGMA reports that the final 2016 Medicare physician fee schedule has been released. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized the Medicare physician fee schedule (PFS) for [...]
ICD-10 Aftershocks: The Challenges Every CFO Can Expect
If any individual in the C-suite will feel the effects of ICD-10 most prominently, it will be the hospital CFO. As reported in Becker's Hospital Review, October 2015, in a [...]
Now there’s 70,000 Ways to Classify Ailments
Doctors, insurers and hospitals are preparing themselves for possible business disruptions on Oct. 1. This is when ICD-10 hits, a massive new set of codes meant to describe any illness or [...]
Holdup at the doctor’s office? New billing codes could be why.
Starting October 1st, physicians and hospitals will have to be far more specific than ever before when diagnosing problems from visits. Because of this change to the system, called ICD-10, [...]
Medicare Reimbursement Rates Get a Small Increase
California Medical Association (CMA ALERT) - The CMS announced that a 0.5% increase will be made for Medicare reimbursement rates, which are effective starting July 1, 2015 to December 31, [...]
CMS will reimburse ICD-10 mistakes for one year after transition deadline
For one year past the Oct. 1, 2015 deadline, the CMS will reimburse for wrongly coded claims as long as that erroneous code is in the same broad family as [...]
Medicare Fraud – Taken For a Ride By Ambulance Companies in New Jersey
A four-month Medicare fraud crackdown targeting ambulance service fraud has resulted in 11 New Jersey-based ambulance service providers relinquishing their licenses this year, according to the New Jersey Department of [...]
Government Recovers $3.3 billion in Fiscal 2014 Federal Health Program Fraud
WASHINGTON--The government recovered $3.3 billion in fiscal 2014 from individuals and companies that tried to defraud federal health programs, part of an effort by the Obama administration to improve enforcement [...]
Is Physician Fear of ICD-10 Turning Them Off Preparation?
This article by EHR Intelligence https://ehrintelligence.com points out theat there are a lot of reasons for healthcare professionals to dislike the notion of ICD-10. Further, recent surveys point out that although [...]