President Trump Expands Telehealth Benefits for Medicare Beneficiaries During COVID-19 Outbreak
Published: Wed, 03/18/20
President Trump Expands Telehealth Benefits for Medicare Beneficiaries During COVID-19 Outbreak
The Trump Administration today announced expanded Medicare telehealth coverage that will enable beneficiaries to receive a wider range of healthcare services from their doctors without having to travel to a healthcare facility. Beginning on March...
Diagnosis coding brings the unique challenge of knowing when to use a 7th character on your ICD-10-CM code and then determining which character applies. These tips will help you refine your diagnosis coding skills.
CMS Final Price Transparency Rule: Take Heed in 2020
Effective Jan. 1, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) required that hospitals publish their chargemasters online for consumers. At the time, it was made clear by CMS that this would be the first of potentially many initiatives geared toward increasing...
As many of you have heard, there are major changes coming to evaluation and management (E&M) codes in 2021. The changes were finalized in the 2020 Physician Final Rule.
4 Medical Billing Errors Preventing a Healthy Patient-Provider Relationship
A healthy patient-provider relationship that develops in the office can quickly be affected negatively if after the treatment the patient receives a medical bill that contains errors.To avoid this from happening, it is important that physicians and staff keep in mind the following...
Several ICD-10 and CPT code changes came into effect for urology in 2020. Practitioners need to understand the updates and associated urology medical billing guidelines to ensure accurate reporting and timely reimbursement.
More than three quarters of large companies today have a “data-hungry” AI initiative under way — projects involving neural networks or deep-learning systems trained on huge repositories of data. Yet, many of the most valuable data sets in organizations are quite small: Think kilobytes or...
New 2020 HIT regulations: is the patient's story heard?
In his recent blog, NextGen Healthcare’s Government Affairs Advisor Chris Emper highlighted some of the key regulations which will impact delivery systems and the Health Information Technology (HIT) industry alike. Among the new regulations are...