Cybersecurity Alert!

On Wednesday, February 21, Change Healthcare experienced a significant cybersecurity incident. There is no identified risk to Availity systems or technology. We consider that KMC University members are under our care and protection, which includes keeping them up to date on important changes, updates, and news that can affect their reimbursement and compliance. This content is meant for members. We’d love to help you come under our umbrella of care and protection with membership. Click…

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Medicare Deductible Amount for 2024

We are winding down the year while at the same time prepping our practice management systems with revised data for 2024. CMS released the following announcement with regard to the 2024 Deductible: We consider that KMC University members are under our care and protection, which includes keeping them up to date on important changes, updates, and news that can affect their reimbursement and compliance. This content is meant for members. We’d love to help you…

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ICD-10 Changes- Effective October 1st  

Be sure that you have updated your computer’s diagnosis list if these are codes your practice uses! We consider that KMC University members are under our care and protection, which includes keeping them up to date on important changes, updates, and news that can affect their reimbursement and compliance. This content is meant for members. We’d love to help you come under our umbrella of care and protection with membership. Click here to learn more.

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New Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers Due to Breach

CMS announced, “Patient’s Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI) May Change” due to a recent breach. We consider that KMC University members are under our care and protection, which includes keeping them up to date on important changes, updates, and news that can affect their reimbursement and compliance. This content is meant for members. We’d love to help you come under our umbrella of care and protection with membership. Click here to learn more.

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Medicare’s Revised ABN

The Medicare Advance Beneficiary Notice (ABN) may carry the tagline Annoying, But Necessary but this does not mean that providers can ignore it or worse, wing it when it comes to implementing it correctly. We consider that KMC University members are under our care and protection, which includes keeping them up to date on important changes, updates, and news that can affect their reimbursement and compliance. This content is meant for members. We’d love to…

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Managing Pre-Payment & Post-Payment Audits

Each time a provider submits a claim, the data is analyzed, and the findings are used to create policies, establish procedures, increase efficiency, and reduce fraud, waste and abuse. We consider that KMC University members are under our care and protection, which includes keeping them up to date on important changes, updates, and news that can affect their reimbursement and compliance. This content is meant for members. We’d love to help you come under our…

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