Chiropractic Services for Medicare Beneficiaries In 2014, the Comprehensive Error Testing Program (CERT) that measures improper payments in the Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS) program reported a 54 percent error rate on claims for Chiropractic services.
CMS Announces Program Integrity Enhancements to the Provider Enrollment Process CMS announced a proposed rule for implementing additional provider enrollment provisions of the Affordable Care Act to help identify entities and individuals who pose risks to the Medicare program. The provisions allow for identified high risks applicants to be kept out of the program...
The CMS Revalidation Project The Affordable Care Act established a requirement for all enrolled providers/suppliers to revalidate their Medicare enrollment information under new enrollment screening criteria. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has completed its initial round of revalidations and will be resuming regular revalidation cycles in March 2016. Individual healthcare providers...
If you’re a physician looking into telehealth, you’ve probably had to learn a new vocabulary — from originating patient site to telepresenter. At the top of these must-know telemedicine-related terms is the telehealth parity law. Knowing a little about what telehealth parity laws are, and what their status is across the U.S. can go...
Many doctors assume that having their staff stay on top of and do their medical billing will save them money over time, but the opposite is actually true. There are many hidden medical billing costs that will cost you a lot of money over time.