Compliance Week-In-Review
April 3, 2020 | By Sean Weiss, CHC, CEMA, CMCO, CPMA, CPC-P, CMPE, CPC Happy Friday – we made it through another week of change, after change, after change.…
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Interprofessional Consult Services
March 27, 2020 | By Grant Huang, CPC, CPMA The recent coronavirus crisis has brought non-face-to-face services to the forefront of coding and billing conversations. With the entire healthcare…
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Biometrics – the New Battleground in Privacy and Security
March 23, 2020 | By Rachel Rose, JD, MBA According to the National Institute for Standards and Technology (“NIST”), biometrics is defined as, “[a]utomated recognition of individuals based on their…
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Implementing Telehealth Visits
March 20, 2020 | By Shannon DeConda, CPC, CPC-1, CPMA, CEMC, CMSCS Step 1: Telehealth Consent In order to conduct a patient encounter as a telehealth service, the patient…
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Auditing & the Attorney Client Privilege: Need for audits and incentives to comply/disclose to government
March 13, 2020 | By Jesse Overbay, JD Readers of this newsletter and followers of the incredibly talented individuals on the NAMAS team know that conducting internal monitoring and…
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Risk Adjustment Opportunities in the World of Simplified Documentation
March 6, 2020 | By Paul Spencer, CPC, COC Something of a preemptive celebration is currently going on in the world of physician documentation. As we know, beginning…
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Maintaining Medicare Enrollment: The Never-Ending High-Hurdles Race
February 28, 2020 | By Daniel F. Shay, Esq. Facing the mounting pressure of demographics, the Medicare system looks to slow the outflow of money however it can. One…
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2021 E&M Changes in Medical Decision Making – Putting it all Together
February 21, 2020 | By Pam Vanderbilt, CPC, CPMA, CPPM, CPC-I, CEMC, CEMA, CEMA-O In the first three articles of this series, we explored how the 2021…
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2021 E&M Changes – Risk in the MDM
February 14, 2020 | By Pam Vanderbilt, CPC, CPMA, CPPM, CPC-I, CEMC, CEMA, CEMA-O Next year will see the implementation of significant changes to E&M guidelines, reducing…
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2021 E&M Changes – Data in the Medical Decision Making (MDM)
February 7, 2020 | By Pam Vanderbilt, CPC, CPMA, CPPM, CPC-I, CEMC, CEMA, CEMA-O Previously we explored the 2021 changes that effect how diagnoses will be scored.…
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