Published: Mon, 06/29/20
How Cleveland Clinic created a telehealth team and new documentation to tackle coding, billing changes When CMS issued sweeping regulatory changes on…
Published: Sat, 06/27/20
Artificial intelligence in medicine: Getting smarter one patient at a time What if doctors had more time to spend addressing their patients' concerns?…
Published: Fri, 06/26/20
CMS: Value-Based Reimbursement Key to Addressing Health Disparities Health disparities proven by Medicare claims data during the COVID-19 crisis…
Published: Thu, 06/25/20
Secure Payment Processing to Protect Patient Privacy HIPAA’s Privacy and Security Rules specify 18 data elements that an individual could use as a…
Published: Wed, 06/24/20
HHS Issues Requirements for Additional Data and Timely Submission of COVID-19 Testing With concerns of COVID-19 having a disproportionate impact on…
Published: Tue, 06/23/20
COVID will become an E cuse for Future RAC and MAC Audits Being nice can get you in trouble. But as David Glaser, Dr. Ronald Hirsch, and I have said…
Published: Mon, 06/22/20
CMS releases FY 2021 ICD-10-PCS code set and official guidelines CMS recently released the fiscal year (FY) 2021 ICD-10-PCS code set, which includes…
Published: Sat, 06/20/20
Offshore Coding: HIPAA Risks From a compliance e posure perspective, we believe that the HIPAA risk associated with sending PHI abroad is simply…
Published: Fri, 06/19/20
COVID-19 Coding Q&A: CPT®, HCPCS, and ICD-10-CM News for Coronavirus Coding A lot of information is appearing very fast about COVID-19 (coronavirus…
Published: Wed, 06/17/20
CMS Issues Proposed Rule to Amend the U.S. DHHS Risk Adjustment Data Validation Program Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)…