Obamacare’s 2017 Insurer Rate Requests Are Starting to Stream in…..
It's been more than two years since the Affordable Care Act, which you probably know better as Obamacare, went into full effect for individual consumers, and in that time the…
Credentialing is a big pain for doctors! Let The Firm Services professionals do it for you.
By Gus Geraci, MD Gus Geraci, MD, is consulting chief medical officer for the Pennsylvania Medical Society. We all know how hard it is to recruit a physician these days.…
ICD-10 denials require attention
CARL NATALE APR 13, 2016 - 05:46 AM The U.S. healthcare system is not paralyzed by denial despite the ICD-10 implementation. Either the ICD-10 codes are not as burdensome as…
ICD-10 implementation hasn’t ruined healthcare yet
Carl Natale APR 8, 2016 - 05:58 AM There is a strong feeling that the ICD-10 transition has gone better than predicted. Not a lot of healthcare providers have come…
ICD-10’s Impact to the Worker’s Compensation Industry
Written by Sherry Wilson and Tina Greene | Monday, 28 March 2016 04:00 A general assumption had been that states would be aligning their worker’s compensation regulations with the rest…
New ICD-10 codes not likely to burden most providers
By Joseph Goedert- Published - March 24 2016, 2:58pm EDT The recent federal announcement that about 5,600 new ICD-10 codes will be added in October may have some provider organizations worried they’ll face…
Thousands of new ICD-10 codes slated for October 2016 release
By Greg Slabodkin Published March 15 2016, 2:47pm EDT The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have given the green light to adding 3,651…
ICD-10 Works, but Concerns Remain Over Audits, Productivity
By James Swann Feb. 24 — The switch to ICD-10 five months ago was uneventful, but concerns about provider productivity using the new codes and the threat of increased government…
Why ICD-10 preparation did not end Oct. 1
by CARL NATALE FEB 16, 2016 - 07:44 PM Despite the "too-soon-to-tell" lens we're using to examine the effects of ICD-10 coding, I'm pretty sure the healthcare providers who invested…
An ICD-10 crisis might still be coming — for some
Carl Natale -FEB 3, 2016 - 06:28 AM Guest post by John Kelly and Jay Sultan This past year the healthcare industry finally saw the long delayed transition to ICD-10…