THE RECAP An announcement on Monday, January 30th, by the OMB (Office of Management and Budget), and the White House, stated that they plan to end the COVID-19 national emergency and public health emergency on May 11th. The end of the emergency declarations would signal a new chapter in the Biden administration’s response to the…
June 10, 2022 | By Scott Kraft, CPMA, CPC The state and federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) declarations related to the COVID-19 pandemic created wide latitude for providers to render services via telehealth in order to prevent the higher risk of in-person contact for patients, providers, and staff. Some states have taken time during…
December 3, 2020 | By Holly Cassano, CPC, CRC There are not many positives that are generally born out of a Pandemic, but for the COVID 19 Pandemic, there have been a few and one of them is the creation of the HRSA Uninsured Portal. I call it a provider “Godsend” as it has…
September 9, 2021 | By Shannon DeConda, CPC, CEMC, CEMA, CPMA, CRTT Never in our lifetime have we encountered a more controversial subject than the daily buzz we hear from co-workers, news networks, social media, and the like related to COVID-19. While most of us are not sitting in a front-line environment (anymore), we…
September 24, 2021 | By Sean Weiss, CHC, CEMA, CMCO, CPMA, CPC-P, CMPE, CPC Sean Weiss, DoctorsManagement Partner and Vice President of Compliance recently sat down with Ronald Chapman II, Esq. LLM of The Chapman Law Group to discuss and break down the Biden-Harris Executive Order and its impact on approximately 100 million American…
May 22, 2020 | By Pam Vanderbilt, CPC, CPMA, CPPM, CPC-I, CEMC, CEMA, CEMA-O NAMAS, like other professional organizations, has a network of compliance professionals who are diligently culling through the multiple interim final rules and daily barrage of e-mails about temporary relaxation of guidance for reporting provider services. This information has become nightly…
June 18, 2021 | By Bryan Meek, Esq., Brennan, Manna, and Diamond The pandemic has undisputedly changed the way in which Americans live their daily lives, including how they receive medical care. Patients have increasingly been receiving care via telemedicine, virtual check-ins, or e-visits in order to avoid physically going to their appointments and…
May 7, 2021 | By Frank Cohen, Director of Analytics and Busines Intelligence It looks like the feds are moving quickly into recoupment audit mode in regards to telehealth and other services reported during the COVID-19 declared Public Health Emergency (PHE). Starting sometime the end of the first quarter of 2020, HHS came out…
November 20, 2020 | By Brenda Edwards, CPC, CDEO, CPB, CPC-I, CEMC, CRC, CMRS, CMCS COVID-19 has been disrupting the healthcare environment for over a year now. Massive changes and evolutions have been introduced for how to code for services during COVID-19 including virtual visits, lab testing, and vaccinations. This article will cover COVID-19…
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 must consent to this modality. The consent should include the patient’s explicit agreement to being treated via telehealth rather than in a face-to-face encounter. Each…