New regulations such as the 2022 No Surprises Act may place providers in the hot seat if they do not notify patients properly when care is no longer considered a covered service.
New Credentialing Process for VA Providers
On April 1, 2022, the VA will utilize a new Credentials Verification Organization (CVO) to credential non-Community Care Network (CCN) providers. If you are a CCN provider, you may not need to do anything.
Medicare Cuts Are Back On!
Due to the pandemic, the Protecting Medicare and American Farmers from Sequester Cuts Act was placed on hold. This has been lifted as of April 1st and will result in a 1% payment reduction effective April 1, 2022 to June 30, 2022 on Medicare Fee For Service claims.
Are my Office Team and I Required to be Vaccinated if I Collect Money from Medicare?
This question comes up once a day. Dr. Grant Shapiro, MCS-P provides all the deets on the rules, the mandates, and what’s really required if you are an outpatient clinic. Finally, the answers you’ve been looking for!
Having Trouble with Your Cervicalgia Diagnosis Code?
Those M54.2 codes seems to be bouncing out there, if the calls and emails to our helpdesk are any kind of indicator. Check this quick video where Kathy explains what we think is happening and what you can do about it.
Cyber Alert!
Unfortunately, in the past few days the ‘record of severity’ has been broken when it comes to the level of threat to internet facing applications. A flaw in Log4j, a Java library for logging users and error messages in applications, is the most high-profile security vulnerability on the internet and has earned the severity score of 10 out of 10.