Yes, you CAN bill for a preventive and sick patient services on the same day! Initially, CMS wanted preventive services to be billed on different days from sick patient visits; but the final ......»

It's that time again. With a few exceptions, if you have not submitted sufficient electronic prescriptions by the end of June, you will face a 1% reduction in Medicare payments for 2012.  If you ......»

Of course, no one we know would face the problem of employee theft! But it is a unpleasant reality we run across all too often in medical practices.  Many medical practices are ......»

The Officer of Inspector General recently published a report entitled "Coding Trends of Medicare Evaluation and Managment Services." Yes, it's great reading for the insomniac; ......»

When KLA does consulting with new providers, one of the areas of missed reimbursement we find MOST FREQUENTLY is provider oversight of home health services. Providers may bill for home ......»

Does your practice include sleep or sports medicine? If so, time to update your 855s with Medicare. Effective April 2, 2012, Medicare will be implementing two new speciality ......»

Government benefits being paid to deceased beneficiaries is a growing problem in the U.S. The National Uniform Billing Committee has created a new "occurrence" code to help capture deaths on ......»

If a patient presents at your office for an allergy injection, don't forget to capture all billable charges. Per CPT 2012, Allergy Immunotherapy Codes 95115 through 95117 ......»