Mainstream media reports are already rife with dire predictions for the upcoming flu season, but experts say it’s really too early to tell how severe it will be.

At the beginning of November, CMS finalized changes to its Medicare payment systems for 2020. Here's a rundown of noteworthy changes CMS made:

The RexPay team is excited to announce that November 14 marked the launch of the RexPay app, an all in one solution to help patients to understand, manage, and pay their medical bills. By working alongside healthcare providers to streamline and digitize the billing process, RexPay is the rescue app that patients and their doctors have been waiting for!

Each year on Oct. 1, the new ICD-10 codes become effective. Over the past few years, this has resulted in a few major changes and a few changes that seemed minor but resulted in major payment delays. For 2020, the code set saw 273 new codes and 21 deleted codes. There were a number of changes to ICD-10 notes throughout...

New Medicare office-visit coding guidelines take effect Jan. 1, 2021, and are designed to be more intuitive and make unnecessary documentation tasks go away. Experts believe the transition will be smooth, especially if practices prepare in advance and avoid some clearly identified pitfalls.

Correctly documenting what was done for a patient, and why, are essential for the coding systems that have become indispensable to the efficient management of contemporary medical care. Learn how to master this fundamental skill set in a learning...

As hospitals prepare to implement the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Discharge Planning Conditions of Participation Final Rule, they’re likely to be thrown off some by IMPACT: Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014.

CMS and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recently announced a new data sharing initiative in which the departments will share provider enrollment data to prevent healthcare fraud, waste, and abuse.