NCDs and LCDs Hit Hardest by ICD-10
ICD-10 update from physician practices By Beth Friedman, BSHA, RHIT, president and founder of Agency Ten22 Posted on: December 11, 2015 Despite physician resistance, the transition to ICD-10 has gone…
Doctor challenges how physicians are evaluated
San Diego Union Tribune- By Paul Sisson | 2:37 p.m. Nov. 14, 2015 Dr. Paul Teirstein led a coalition pushing back against unpopular certification rules. In less than two years, Dr.…
End Of Medicare Bonuses Will Cut Pay To Primary Care Doctors
HEALTH INC. November 28, 2015-7:03 AM ET : Michelle Andrews Many primary care practitioners will be a little poorer next year because of the expiration of a health law program that…
How to improve queries for ICD-10 claims
by CARL NATALE OCT 28, 2015 - 05:51 AM U.S. healthcare is waiting to see how ICD-10 implementation affects reimbursements. The fear is that ICD-10 claims will be denied at…
What’s left to do in the week before ICD-10 coding goes live?
by CARL NATALE SEP 23, 2015 - 12:00 AM There's only a week left before you have to start using ICD-10 codes. That's not a lot of time to do…
ICD-10 hops Congressional hurdle
Congress will have just 17 week days to pass legislation killing the conversion. Is ICD-10 finally in the clear? Tom Sullivan, Editor-in-Chief, Healthcare IT News- August 10, 2015 Health IT…
CMS Releases FAQs To Clarify Plan To Ease ICD-10 Transition
Wednesday, July 29, 2015 On Monday, CMS released answers to frequently asked questions to help clarify recently announced measures that aim to provide physicians with some flexibility as they transition…
CMS Announced Proposed Rule on the FY16 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule
In a press release issued on July 8, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced its Proposed Rule on the FY16 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS). This Proposed Rule represents…
Emergency cash a must for ICD-10
Extra funds can go a long way to relieving anticipated headaches of code change Healthcare providers may face disruptions in their payments even if they are on target to operate…
How Doctors can really cut costs for medicare patients.
Follow the Real Money Physicians are eyeing the wrong procedures in the quest to cut costs for Medicare patients. By Mark Pauly May 15, 2015 | 4:15 p.m. EDT Physicians have,…
