Medicare contractors were inconsistent in how they reviewed overpayments during the appeals process, says the Office of Inspector General in a new report. 

We are getting more sophisticated and knowledgeable about COVID-19, but I am still getting a lot of questions. Many of them are variations on the theme of what to do with patients who are being...

Medicare’s often-misunderstood inpatient-only list may soon be departing, as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed to eliminate it over the next three years...

The COVID-19 pandemic has driven digital transformation across healthcare at an unprecedented speed. Telemedicine has emerged as an essential tool for maintaining patient/doctor communication during...

Under normal circumstances, the biggest difficulty practices encounter when trying to engage in physician education is timing.  Coordinating everyone’s schedules, pulling providers out of the operative and visiting rooms, and capturing a practice’s attention during...

In addition to Medicare billing updates, the federal agency also announced that it will resume routine inspections for all Medicare and Medicaid-certified providers.

While the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has faced considerable health IT challenges in the past few years, the VA is attempting to increase its interoperability and enhance its health information exchange and new EHR...

Physicians and parents are warned about the re-emergence of this illness. In October 2018, ICD-10monitor reported initially on acute flaccid myelitis (AFM). The Centers for Disease Control and...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in the past week has proposed Medicare payment rules for outpatient services and physicians for 2021 and finalized payment rules for...

Most of the physicians lose a significant amount of revenue every year due to minor and major mistakes that cause errors while filing medical claims. A minor write-off in physician billing services can result in the claim denials and hence no payment.