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Category Archives: Legislative Action

The Year of the Audit: Stand Your Ground with Payers

Compliance, E/M Coding & Auditing, Legislative Action, Payer RulesBy NAMASJanuary 22, 2021

  January 22, 2021 | By Sean M. Weiss, CHC, CMCO, CEMA, CPMA, CPC-P, CMPE, CPC Welcome to 2021, “y’all” – as we say down yonder in the beautiful South!…

Changes to Stark May Require Tweaks to the Physician Compensation Formula

Legislative Action, Payer RulesBy NAMASJanuary 8, 2021

  January 8, 2021 | By David Glaser In early December, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued new rules that dramatically revise the Physician Self-Referral Law, commonly…

Finally: CMS releases 2021 final rule; no major surprises seen

E/M Coding & Auditing, Legislative Action, Payer RulesBy NAMASDecember 10, 2020

  December 15, 2020 | By By Grant Huang, CPC, CPMA At long last, CMS has published its Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final rule, and while some of the…

OIG HHS Audits Resuming

Compliance, Legislative ActionBy NAMASAugust 21, 2020

  August 21, 2020 | By Jesse Overbay, JD On March 13, 2020, the President of the United States issued an emergency declaration under the Stafford Act to declare a…

Compliance Tidbit: How Covered Providers May Contact Patients with COVID About Population-Based Activities

COVID-19, Legislative ActionBy NAMASAugust 7, 2020

  August 7, 2020 | By By Rachel Rose, JD, MBA The Health Information Portability and Accountability Act, Pub. L. 104-191 (Aug. 1996) (“HIPAA”) is often times misapplied. Take the…

Public Health Emergency Set to Expire July 25, 2020

COVID-19, Legislative Action, News & EventsBy NAMASJuly 23, 2020

  July 23, 2020 | By Sean Weiss, CHC, CEMA, CMCO, CPMA, CPC-P, CMPE, CPC As you all know the Public Health Emergency (PHE) is due to expire on Saturday…

Coding and Compliance Audits During COVID-19

COVID-19, E/M Coding & Auditing, Legislative ActionBy NAMASMay 15, 2020

  May 15, 2020 | By Stephanie Allard, CPC, CEMA, RHIT Over the past month, I have heard comments wondering why we would continue to audit during the COVID-19 public…

The Week-In-Review

Compliance, COVID-19, Legislative ActionBy NAMASApril 3, 2020

  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.…

Biometrics – the New Battleground in Privacy and Security

Legislative ActionBy NAMASMarch 23, 2020

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…

Implementing Telehealth Visits

E/M Coding & Auditing, ICD-10, Legislative ActionBy NAMASMarch 20, 2020

  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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