The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 specifies three main components of Meaningful Use:1. The use of a certified...
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CMS Eliminates Requirement For IL’s To Bill Each AMCC Test
Effective for services on or after January 1, 2012, CMS eliminates the requirement for Independent Laboratory (ILs) to bill separately for...
CLIA requires that for each test it performs, a laboratory facility must be appropriately certified. The CPT codes that the...
The ABCs of Providing the Annual Wellness Visit
For dates of service on or after January 1, 2011, the Affordable Care Act allows for coverage of the Annual...
Billing Requirements For Surgeries & Applicable Modifiers
The teaching surgeon is responsible for the preoperative, operative, and postoperative care of the beneficiary. The teaching physician’s presence is...
Specialty codes are used by CMS for programmatic and claims processing purposes. They are used in expenditure analysis. Medicare contractors...
Medicare Providers Must Begin to Revalidate Enrollment
Why Medicare Providers must revalidate their Enrollment? In the continued effort to reduce fraud, waste, and abuse, CMS implemented new...
Payment Issuance For Successful Participants In ERX Program
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that incentive payments for the 2010 Medicare Electronic Prescribing (eRx)...
Accident – An unintended occurrence outside the normal course of events that causes illness, injury or damage to a person or...
What is Liability insurance and No-Fault Insurance?
Liability insurance is coverage that protects against claims based on negligence, inappropriate action, or inaction that results in bodily injury or...
The revised Advanced Beneficiary Notice of Noncoverage (ABN)
The revised Advanced Beneficiary Notice of Noncoverage (ABN), Form CMS-R-131, is issued by providers (including independent laboratories), physicians, practitioners, and...
PQRS Frequently asked Questions – from CMS
* If only one eligible professional in the group practice satisfactorily reports Physician Quality Reporting System quality measures, how will...