Medicare inappropriately filled $6 million in claims for diabetes testing strips in 2011, according to a report from HHS' Office of the Inspector General.
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The gap between Medicare payment rates and physician practice expenses continues to grow, according to a Medscape report.
As managed care contracts move away from grouper-based methodologies, it's common for payers to casually refer to their new methodology as "Medicare-based;" in reality, however, it is very rare that a payer strictly follows Medicare's payment methodology for commercial products.…
Physicians may be able to recoup costs for the discarded, unused portion of a drug, according to AAPC.
A poll from the American College of Physician Executives questioned whether Medicare should release payment data to individual physicians, with the answers relatively split.
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National Medical Billing Services, a national healthcare revenue cycle management company that specializes in servicing ambulatory surgery centers and their affiliated surgeons, announced today the company's Senior Vice President of Coding Angela Talton was appointed by the Missouri Health Information…
National Medical Billing Services Senior Vice President, Coding Angela Talton, MBA, RHIA, CCS, CPC, CPC-H, discussed how ambulatory surgery centers can prepare for the transition to ICD-10 in a webinar titled "Where ASCs Should Be with ICD-10." The presentation…
National Medical Billing Services, a national healthcare revenue cycle management company that specializes in servicing ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and their affiliated surgeons, has recently announced its support of the Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality and Access Act of 2013, which…
Palmetto Health in South Carolina has selected 3M's 360 Encompass System for electronic medical record coding, clinical documentation and performance monitoring at its four acute-care hospitals.
A recent report from Aon Hewitt showed employers are looking to control costs by moving coverage of employees 65 and older from their group plan to the individual Medicare market or a Medicare Advantage plan, according to a Healthcare Finance…