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Your practice is looking for a new medical office receptionist So what are some of the elements I should include in the job description? The job description you decide on... Read More >
Your practice is looking for a new medical office receptionist So what are some of the elements I should include in the job description? The job description you decide on... Read More >
The American Health Laywers Association reports that the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General OIG expects investigative recoveries of . billion for the first half of... Read More >
All Medicare Administrative Contractor MAC secure portal Medicare Beneficiary Identifier MBI look-up tools are ready for use. If you don t already have access, sign up for your MAC s... Read More >
When visiting a client s office, I found out the office manager was in the process of hiring a new full-time medical coder and had been tasked with writing job... Read More >
If you submitted Merit-based Incentive Payment System MIPS data through the Quality Payment Program website, you can review your preliminary performance feedback. Please note this is not your MIPS final... Read More >
Patients who are ineligible for benefits that you thought they had are a potential headache for every medical practice. In fact, some experts say it s the most common billing... Read More >
Why is proper documentation important to you and your patients? Find out how it affects items services, claim payment, and medical review in the Provider Minute The Importance of Proper... Read More >
The Antitrust Division at the US Department of Justice DOJ publicly acknowledged once again last week that active criminal investigations involving no-poaching agreements are underway. The most recent statement clarifies... Read More >
Have Accounts Payable, Accounting, Finance or Personnel handle the petty cash box. Keep the key in a location known only to you and perhaps one other employee. Put it where... Read More >
The Office of the Inspector General OIG reports that Medicare is vulnerable to fraud, waste, and abuse for wet Age-related Macular Degeneration wet AMD and cataracts Administration of Lucentis injections... Read More >
A Texas doctor was arrested Monday on charges he led a million health care fraud and money laundering scheme in which he falsely diagnosed patients with degenerative diseases and gave... Read More >
A Office of the Inspector General OIG report noted that providers may not be informing CMS of ownership changes. Providers must update their enrollment information to reflect changes in ownership... Read More >
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This post focuses on educating employers about the employer credit for paid family and medical leave created by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed last year. Employers may claim... Read More >
nbsp CMS Medicare recently found that some ophthalmologists are reporting G and G in error for services after , causing claims to deny. These codes were deleted and reissued with... Read More >
Businesses of all sizes are constantly trying to streamline operations so they can spend less money while improving productivity. And while it may not always seem like it, your practice... Read More >
A Las Vegas-based cardiovascular surgical practice agreed to pay . million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that the organization overbilled federal health care programs including Medicaid and also billed... Read More >
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act contains provisions that may affect how independent contractors pay taxes on income earned in . Watch the Barton Associates webinar recording to review tax... Read More >
As mentioned in my prior blog posts, CMS is mailing new Medicare cards with new Medicare numbers to people newly enrolling in Medicare. People who already have Medicare coverage will... Read More >
From the Association of Independent Doctors http www.aid-us.org The hospital buying binge may be over, at least when it comes to acquiring physician practices. A new report from the Physicians... Read More >
Identity Theft IRS Clarifies Procedures on Responding to Identity Theft In a recent Fact Sheet, the IRS clarified that in the vast majority of tax-related identity theft cases, there is... Read More >
CMS is mailing new Medicare cards with new Medicare numbers known as the Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers MBIs to people newly enrolling in Medicare. People who already have Medicare coverage will... Read More >
About million adults in the United States drink too much. Only one in six adults have talked to a health professional. Alcohol screening and brief counseling has been proven to... Read More >
If you have a policy manual, does it? As the spotlight continues to grow on workplace sexual harassment, it is more important than ever for medical practices to take the... Read More >
It should be obvious that all taxpayers should file their taxes on time, even if they can t pay what they owe. This saves them from a potential failure-to-file penalty.... Read More >
According to the American Institute of Healthcare Compliance, the Office for Civil Rights OCR , the government enforcement agency for HIPAA, has received over , HIPAA complaints and has initiated... Read More >
Use the updated MIPS Participation Lookup Tool to check on your eligibility for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System MIPS . Just enter your National Provider Identifier to find out whether... Read More >
I want to make you aware of a valuable new tax credit made possible by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act TCJA . The credit is available to employers that... Read More >
DEA is aware that registrants are receiving telephone calls and emails by criminals identifying themselves as DEA employees or other law enforcement personnel. The criminals have masked their telephone number... Read More >
It happens again and again A physician is blind-sided by the discovery that a long-time, trusted employee has had his or her fingers in the practice till for several years,... Read More >