A House hearing on ways to increase payments and cut red tape for physicians who treat Medicare patients also included a discussion over whether Republicans wanted to cut Medicare benefits… Read More
Large companies love to have their customer-facing representatives take the flack for their systemic deficiencies. When United Airlines had a nationwide delay due to ‘equipment outage… Read More
Explore the New Updates on CMS Proposed Expansion of Behavioral Healthcare Under MedicareOn July 13, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled a groundbreaking pr… Read More
Medicare and Medicaid are the two largest government-sponsored health insurance programs in the United States. Cardiology billing under Medicare and Medicaid can be complex due to various ru… Read More
Have you seen the 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule? The rule brought up policy changes for Medicare Part B Payments. CMS has shared detailed information on its official web… Read More
WASHINGTON — The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is proposing a 3.4% cut to the “conversion factor” used to set the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule f… Read More
Hand surgery is a specialized field in the healthcare industry. It requires meticulous attention to detail, both in the operating room and in the billing process. Accurate coding plays a cru… Read More
Ilus naeratus annab elule sära ning aitab suheldes enesekindlamalt tunda. Ent mõnikord võib see olla keeruline – igapäevased harjumused, geneetika ning elu- ja… Read More
Evaluation and Management (E/M) services consist of categories such as office visits, hospital inpatient or observation care visits, and consultations. Evaluation and management (E/M) coding… Read More
Defining ‘New Patient’
According to the CPT definition, a new patient is someone who has not received professional services from the physician or another physician in the same sp… Read More
Final Rule for Telehealth and Digital Services
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the 2023 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final rule on 1st November 2022. The… Read More
January 1, 2023, not only ushered in a new year, it also ushered in significant changes in emergency medicine documentation from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The ch… Read More
Things You Never Knew About Physician Fee Schedule
The 2023 physician fee schedule brings medicare reimbursement reductions, coding changes, and MIPS adjustments for emergency medicine grou… Read More
2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule
Recently, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the CY 2023 revisions to payment policies under the Medicare Phys… Read More
No one feels sorry for American doctors.
They are some of the highest-paid in the world, spending their lives in the country with the highest nominal GDP in the world.
But why is it so hard… Read More
Adds to recent designation of a Star Performer for RCM Operations by Everest Group
BOCA RATON, Fla., Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Omega Healthcare, a leading healthcare management solut… Read More
October 1st, 2022 HospitalRecruiting celebrated a huge milestone by marking its tenth year being in business. In honor of a decade dedicated to healthcare staffing all across the United Sta… Read More
Pine Park Health is expanding its value-based health care model further into the affordable senior housing sector.
Pine Park Health Chief Commercial Officer Dan O’Neill announced l… Read More
Revenue cycle management is important because it lets you keep track of claims processing, payment and revenue generation. If you do not want to lose revenue, it is essential to track r… Read More
RAND’s magazines do not always show the point of views of its research study clients as well as sponsors. At Intrepy, every one of our clients get access to their very own advertising… Read More
For nearly a decade, HospitalRecruiting.com has provided recommended reading on recruiting, job searches, and healthcare industry news. The Healthcare Career Resources staff seeks to give… Read More
Monica Roa/123RF.comNo matter your profession, when searching for new employment or a raise, knowing your value is crucial. While there are many ways to add value to a practice, healthcare p… Read More
Benchmarking is a current term used to describe a process that has always been applied but perhaps not in the same way as it is today. That process involves comparing business stati… Read More
The term “Relative Value Units”, or RVU, is used frequently these days in a variety of contexts. RVUs form the basis for payment of physician fees by Medicare and… Read More
The primary driver for licensing DR for IBM is the software title and version.
There may be specific licensing rules for the software product, and those will override the general DR licensin… Read More
The stakes are high. Coding drives revenue. Coding compliantly is demanded of all practices. Physician compensation is often determined by the RVUs associated with the CPT code that is… Read More
The information contained in this document, including the codes supplied, is provided for informational purposes only. BD makes no statement, promise or guarantee concerning the appropriaten… Read More
Healthcare organizations have many functional areas to work upon, but the two main areas that affect the hospital’s sustenance are billing and collections. Billing influences a hospit… Read More
Reflecting on the end of my residency is impossible without reflecting on my life.
I knew I wanted to be a physician when I was 5 years old. Whether by parental grooming or destiny, I proudl… Read More
Some refugees from employment have been contacting OmniMD, a Tarrytown, New York-based company that helps set up information technology, because they need IT when they reopen private practi… Read More
The pendulum that swung away from making physicians hospital based ten years ago has clearly swung back. Hospitals are moving away from contracting with independent groups for many services… Read More
So far in 2006, if the benchmark measure is inflation, then physician salaries are above that line, and work RVUs (relative value units) are below that indicator. RVUs are used by CMS and ot… Read More