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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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“No Surprises Act” Implementation-What It Means for Your Practice

Just when we thought we were finished with new regulations for the year, the No Surprises Act that was introduced in July is set to be implemented on January 1, 2022. This Act is properly named ‘surprise’ as it has surprised both payers and providers.

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Can We Send Patient Statements Without Patient Authorization?

In this HelpDesk video, we provide the answer about sending patient statements.

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