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.

HHS announced Aug. 14 that it is sending $1.4 billion in COVID-19 relief funds to 80 children's hospitals. Here are five things to know about the distribution of the relief funds:

On August 3, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid released the proposed 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule that sets Medicare payment and quality provisions for physicians in 2021. The 2021 proposed rule increases payments for some specialties, reduces...

There is no such thing as a coder who knows it all. If your coder claims to be able to code every specialty, and you let them, you might want to get your checkbook ready to pay back some recoupments.  There are over 70,000...

New PCS codes were released late last week and are effective Aug. 1, 2020. The codes are considered V37.2. There are 12 new procedure codes, and they are related to COVID-19.

The confusion over what code to use when hospital-employed physicians perform virtual visits with patients has reared its head again in the latest FAQ from Medicare (released on July 28).