Healthcare Newsletters

• Billing Medicare for Advanced Diagnostic Imaging Technical Component???? Accreditation Requirements Effective January 1, 2012 – Medicare to stop Reimbursing Unaccredited Providers! - Comments (0)
• Making a List for 2012, Checking it Twice - Comments (0)
• 5010 Transition Delayed to March 31, 2012 - Comments (0)
• Is my contract negotiable? Do I need a review? - Comments (0)
• OIG Determines Testing Company Arrangement May Create Liability Exposure - Comments (0)
• Employee Wage Notices Due before Feb 1 - Comments (0)
• $500k or more ordered or received from Medicaid and/or Medicaid-HMOs? Medicaid December 31st Compliance Certification Deadline Quickly Approaching - Comments (0)
• Giving Thanks to certain office employees and not others - Comments (0)
• What is Value-Based Medicine? - Comments (0)
• Interested in what your colleagues are charging? Your patients may be… - Comments (0)
• Reportable to the NPDB? What is the NPDB? - Comments (0)
• Pursuing locum tenens arrangement worth it? - Comments (0)
• Employee required to work at multiple practice locations? - Comments (0)
• Offering free consults - Comments (0)
• Can I provide free transportation for my patients? - Comments (0)
• Legal collections process - Comments (0)
• Right to contact patients after leaving position - Comments (0)
• Patient responsibility for their own care – right to terminate patient? - Comments (0)
• Ramifications of Payor Contract Termination? - Comments (1)
• Finding the right assistance with billing - Comments (1)
• Mandatory vacation days or closures? - Comments (0)
• Charging co-pay for no-show okay? - Comments (0)
• “Appropriate” response to request for information - Comments (0)
• Medicare calling for Quality input - Comments (0)
• Pre-authorization received, payment denied - Comments (2)
• Allowable charge to patient for medical records on CD - Comments (0)
• New entity? Don’t forget workers compensation insurance for your employees! - Comments (0)
• Understanding the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate formula - Comments (0)
• Required pay for employee on maternity leave? - Comments (0)
• Conflict of interest where partner of patient becoming referral source - Comments (0)
• Office for Civil Rights hires Big Guns – KPMG – to audit HIPAA Compliance - Comments (0)
• Requirements for Patient follow-up? - Comments (0)
• Can I hire medical students to help out at my practice? - Comments (0)
• Should I incorporate, and, if so, to what? - Comments (0)
• Patient notification post-associate departure? - Comments (0)
• Rendering services on yourself and billing for them Kosher? - Comments (0)
• An insurer is requesting records for each patient for each claim I submit. Why? And how do I stop this? - Comments (0)
• Should I send in records requested by an insurer? - Comments (0)
• Reporting False Claims - Comments (0)
• Question on Paying a Billing Company or Biller a Percentage a No No? - Comments (0)
• Paying a Billing Company or Biller a Percentage a No No? - Comments (0)
• Keeping OMIG in check? - Comments (0)
• Why University of California at Los Angeles Health System is now taking patient privacy seriously - Comments (0)
• Checking to make sure your new hire isn’t an “excluded” provider - Comments (0)
• Will I be penalized for not EPrescribing? - Comments (0)
• Failure to report and/or co-pays – Tax Evasion or Insurance Fraud? - Comments (0)
• Dangers of becoming a Hospital employee – Legal Perspective - Comments (0)
• Comments on Billing for in-network rates when I don’t participate – July 1, 2011 - Comments (0)
• Billing for in-network rates when I don’t participate – June 30, 2011 - Comments (0)
• Lease question from practice perspective – June 28, 2011 - Comments (0)
• Creating an Operational Multi-Disciplinary Practice – June 23, 2011 - Comments (0)
• Recording Staff Phone Calls, Notice Required? – May 26, 2011 - Comments (0)
• Medicare Annual Wellness Visits – Medicare’s Latest Best Kept Secret – May 25, 2011 - Comments (0)
• Q. Billing for Services Under the Correct Entity – Multi-Entity Structure – May 24, 2011 - Comments (0)
• ISAAC v. THE CENTER FOR SPINE, JOINT, AND NEUROMUSCULAR REHABILITATION, P.C. - Comments (0)
• Advertising by Gender – May 19, 2011 - Comments (0)
• Keeping myself and my practice off of the OIG’s Most Wanted – May 17, 2011 - Comments (0)
• The Office of Inspector General’s MOST WANTED – May 12, 2011 - Comments (0)
• Q. What contracts does my Practice really need? – May 10, 2011 - Comments (0)
• Patient Suffering from Potential Dementia Harassing Practice – What do I do? – May 5, 2011 - Comments (0)
• What is a Medical Home? – April 28, 2011 - Comments (0)
• New Employee Documentation Requirements Effective April 9, 2011 – Added Threat from Backstabbing Employees and Department of Labor – 4/21/2011 - Comments (0)
• Disclosure Requirement When Referring for Diagnostic Imaging Services Where You Have a Financial Interest – 4/19/2011 - Comments (0)
• Getting Paid for Legitimate Services You Render – 4/14/2011 - Comments (0)
• Charging Patients a Cancellation Fee – 4/12/2011 - Comments (0)
• What happens if I breach the restrictive covenant in my employment agreement? - Comments (0)
• Overview of the FTC and Antitrust Division of the DOJ’s Proposed Statement of Antitrust Enforcement Policy Regarding Accountable Care Organizations Participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program – April 5, 2011 - Comments (0)
• FINALLY!! Proposed Regulations Promulgated on Accountable Care Organizations!! – March 31, 2011 - Comments (0)
• Accountable Care through Organization: Transitioning to the Unknown - Comments (0)
• Outsourcing Administrative Services – March 17, 2011 - Comments (0)
• Turning Lemons Into Lemonade: Medicaid’s Compliance Plan Requirement – March 15, 2011 - Comments (0)
• Exhausted Malpractice Policy – Who Pays and from What? – March 8, 2011 - Comments (0)
• Office Matters – Scanning and Shredding Records – March 1, 2011 - Comments (0)
• Beware of Corporate Records Mail Scam – 2/24/2011 - Comments (0)
• Medicare – the Few Ruining it for the Many - Comments (0)
• Insurer Overpayment Request; Can it actually do that and what should I do? - Comments (0)
• Preventative Planning for Personal, Not Just Professional - Comments (0)
• Comments on: Do I have to Sign my Notes? - Comments (0)
• Do I have to Sign my Notes? - Comments (0)
• Ordered Services and Medicaid HMOs included in Compliance Plan Precipice/Medicaid Billing Company Requirements - Comments (0)
• Accept Medicaid? Trouble on the Horizon - Comments (0)
• Snow Day – Appropriate Patient Notice?/Comment on Should I Appeal Claims Denials? - Comments (0)
• Should I Appeal Claims Denials? - Comments (0)
• Post SC Ruling – FICA Refund Still an Option?? - Comments (0)
• Should I Register with Medicare NOW for EHR Reimbursement? - Comments (0)
• Supreme Court Decides Yesterday that Residents Must Pay FICA Taxes - Comments (0)
• Who Needs a Contract? - Comments (0)
• Ordering Home Health Services for Medicare Beneficiaries? New Requirements to be aware of - Comments (0)
• Housekeeping issues: 2011 Tax Update/ Medicare “Find-a-Doctor” Up and Running - Comments (0)
• Proposed 2011 New Years Resolutions for You and Your Practice - Comments (0)
• Accepting Gifts from Patients - Comments (0)
• Offering Free Admin In Exchange for Referrals? - Comments (0)
• Medicare Reprieve Before Overhaul - Comments (0)
• Protecting Your Practice From Recoupment Demands - Comments (0)
• Overview of DC Bar Association Healthcare Summit/Red Flags Rule - Comments (0)
• Patient Responsibility - Comments (0)
• A Few Things Medicare Related - Comments (0)
• AMA Guidelines for Online Communications - Comments (0)
• Protecting Against Online Identity Theft - Comments (0)
• Medicare Cuts Update and Action Needed - Comments (0)
• Emailing Patient Privacy Forms - Comments (0)
• Incentive Compensation - Comments (0)
• OIG’s Roadmap for Physicians - Comments (0)
• HHS and DOJ team up to crack down on fraud - Comments (0)
• Not Collecting Co-Pays? - Comments (0)
• Allowable Charges for Records - Comments (0)
• Q&Ax2: Third Party Payor Liquidation Sale!/Doctor/Patient Relationship Exposure? - Comments (0)
• PPACA and Accountable Care Organizations - Comments (0)
• Billing Patients Directly for Admin Medication Time - Comments (0)
• “Do It Yourself” Corporate Structuring? - Comments (0)
• EMR Assessment by Scott Forehand www.escribeinc.com - Comments (0)
• Patient Records Upon Employee/Treating Physician Departure - Comments (0)
• Freebies from Uncle Sam? - Comments (0)
• How to Prevent Issues with Insurers - Comments (0)
• Offering Free Transportation to Patients - Comments (0)
• Alert – Finally an Organized Physician Advocate for Office Based Surgery Practices! - Comments (0)
• Reducing Amount Billed due to No Insurance, Lack of Coverage - Comments (0)
• Paying a Patient’s Insurance Premiums and Additional Comments on Contracting with a Billing Company - Comments (0)
• Referring Patients for Services Where You May See a Monetary Benefit - Comments (0)
• EMR Fiction v. Fact, Part 2, contributed by Ron Pucherelli, MSSNY HIT Project Administrator - Comments (0)
• EMR Fiction v. Fact, Part 1, contributed by Ron Pucherelli, MSSNY HIT Project Administrator - Comments (0)
• Challenging an Experimental Denial - Comments (0)
• Why NJ has Better Abusive Recoupment Demand Protections than NY - Comments (0)
• Compensation for Referrals - Comments (0)
• Alert! – Healthcare Financing Under Scrutiny - Comments (0)
• Is EMR a MUST? - Comments (0)
• Co-Pays Rule of Thumb - Comments (0)
• Employee Sick Time and Disability Benefits - Comments (0)
• Comment on Request for Money Back – Returning Improper Payments by Third Party Payors - Comments (0)
• I received a request for money back from an insurer, now what? - Comments (0)
• Understanding the Costs and Benefits of Capitated Plans - Comments (0)
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• UPDATED MEDICARE FEE SCHEDULE NOW POSTED - Comments (0)
• Acceptable Advertising? - Comments (0)
• Missing EOBs from Aetna? - Comments (0)
• Suing a Patient? Are you a Debt Collector? - Comments (0)
• FTC Price Fixing Charges – Another Reason to Support NYS Legislation for Collective Bargaining - Comments (0)
• OPMC Update: Wrongful Delegation, Cheating and - Comments (0)
• Medicare Cut Reversed – For Now - Comments (0)
• Comments on Department of Labor Alert – IRS on the prowl as well – Provided by Healthcare Accountant Bryan Koshers - Comments (0)