Under normal circumstances, the biggest difficulty practices encounter when trying to engage in physician education is timing. Coordinating everyone’s schedules, pulling providers out of the operative and visiting rooms, and [...]
Picking the right coding vendor can be challenging. There so many options and they all tell you they offer accurate coding to ensure revenue optimization and compliance risk minimization. To [...]
From a compliance exposure perspective, we believe that the HIPAA risk associated with sending PHI abroad is simply untenable. HIPAA is an American law that does not extend beyond our [...]
There is no such thing as a coder who knows it all. If your coder claims to be able to code every specialty, and you let them, you might want [...]
A troubling trend in the medical coding industry is a misleading split model where companies will have resources both onshore and abroad but not disclose which personnel are performing the [...]
The coding industry is chock full of companies offering a bevy of services, one of them being coding.During our twenty five years in business, we have seen countless vendors in [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Cross training sounds like it should work. A coder is a coder. Why pay a new coder to work on Orthopedics when you have two OB/GYN coders with extra capacity? [...]
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 [...]
