Both providers and payers have major concerns with how regulations to ban surprise medical bills will be implemented next year, with providers concerned about added burden and insurers clamoring for more time.

Innovative work to meet the urgent public health need for streamlined reporting and tracking of COVID-19 vaccinations is presented in today’s release of the 2022 Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) code set published by the American Medical Association (AMA). The annual update to the CPT code set incorporates...

Two years ago, the federal government created a plan to audit Medicare Advantage (MA) insurers more aggressively: the MA Risk Adjustment Data Validation (RADV) program. But that plan has been sitting in regulatory limbo for two years – and not just because of COVID. The plan will claw back billions of taxpayer...

CMS has requested that Medicare Advantage organizations relax or waive prior authorizations due to the impact of the coronavirus Delta variant.

Research shows that about 14 percent of adults developed at least one new clinical sequela requiring medical care after recovery from COVID-19, though many specifics have yet to be clarified.

Your practice is considering making a move—or has moved—to a collaborative care model so patients have greater access to mental health care in the primary care setting. It’s a model that requires collaboration and coordination that doesn’t always fit into previous billing codes.