Charity Singleton Craig is a freelance writer and editor who provides communications and marketing services for CIPROMS. She is responsible for creating, editing, and managing all content, design, and interaction on the company website and social media channels in order to promote CIPROMS as a thought leader in healthcare billing and management.
Emergency physicians in Kansas and Missouri are raising new concerns about insurers refusing to pay or paying only a screening fee for patients being treated for conditions which they claim are non-urgent. Is Indiana next? Read more
Rendering providers who have yet to be linked to one of their group’s service locations in the Indiana Medicaid program will have a few extra months to meet the requirement before the payer begins denying claims. Read more
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently published a new online tool to help providers know if they are eligible (and thus will need to submit data) for the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System. Read more
Before the 2017 ASA commercial surveys are distributed this summer, we thought we’d take a look at the 2016 results and the state of commercial payments. Read more
We’re almost four months into the 2017 reporting year for the new MACRA Quality Payment Program, but many providers still aren’t sure how to participate or whether they even need to. But the onus for preparing for the QPP is not entirely on providers. Read more
According to a recent audit from the Government Accountability Office, Medicare’s payment and coverage restrictions are largely responsible for holding back progress and access to telehealth services. But cost savings and innovative uses of telehealth in the Emergency Department may help push the industry toward greater adoption. Read more
Back in mid-March, dozens of healthcare organizations sent a letter to newly-confirmed Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma urging the federal government to reduce the burden and penalties associated with quality reporting. But just how high are those costs? Read more
As anesthesiologists increasingly work in care teams to help improve patient care and reduce costs, using advanced practitioners, like Certified Anesthesiologist Assistants (CAA), has become an attractive option. Read more
With so much riding on a practice’s fee schedule, it seems important that physicians routinely review their fee schedules. But do they? How long has it been since you dusted off the charge list of procedures you routinely perform? And more importantly, how do you know when your fee schedule needs to be changed or updated? Read more
The removal of moderate (or conscious) sedation from hundreds of CPT codes and the creation of six new codes to be used for billing the service means providers who perform moderate sedation, even those who also are performing primary services, have more options for being reimbursed for their work. Read more
