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A Nebraska bill that won first-round legislative approval would use recovery audit contractors to try to reduce costs for the state budget, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.
Hospital need to restructure themselves to reduce claims denials by recovery audit contractors, says Elizabeth Lamkin, CEO of Pace Healthcare Consulting in Hilton Head, S.C. Here she offers nine ways to add or change committees, enhance reporting and create new…
Jennifer Colagiovanni, an attorney at Wachler & Associates in Royal Oak, Mich., makes the following four points for hospitals appealing decisions by recovery audit contractors.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has requested to gauge provider readiness for 5010 and ICD-10 in an industry-wide survey, according to a Cardiovascular Business report.
ICD-10 will impact productivity of healthcare organizations on many levels, slowing the process of documentation, entering new codes and payor communication, according to an AAPC release.
Paul Spencer, compliance officer for Fi-Med Management, a physician practice financial management company based in Wauwatosa, Wis., lists eight actions hospitals should take to protect themselves against recovery audit contractors.
CMS recently issued guidance for hospitals on how to determine whether patients should be admitted and thus avoid recoupment by recovery audit contractors or denials by Medicare administrative contractors.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services estimate that the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 will cost the healthcare industry $1.64 billion, according to a Wall Street Journal Health Blog report.
Coding experts disagree on the effectiveness and necessity of ICD-10, according to a set of opposing editorials published by the American Association of Professional Coders.
The following article is written by Rosalind Richmond, chief coding and compliance officer for GENASCIS. CPT copyright 2010 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association. It gets…