August 19, 2022 | By Shannon DeConda, CPC, CEMC, CEMA, CPMA, CRTT Training techniques used from the 2021 Documentation Guidelines training and implementation may be helpful with training for these updates as well, even though these updates relate to different types and places of service. However, a lesson learned from 2021 was that education,…
The 2023 AMA documentation guidelines hit us on June 30th -and I’ve had a chance to read through them. I want to remind you that while we have the AMA changes, we don’t yet have the final rule from CMS. We don’t know how CMS is going to process all of these changes. As you’re…
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…
August 6, 2021 | By Sean M. Weiss, CHC, CMCO, CEMA, CPMA, CPC-P, CMPE, CPC 2021 has lived up to what, in my mind, I’ve dubbed back in December of 2020 “The Year of The Audit”. The number of “raids”, resolution agreements, settlement agreements, and audits by RACs, SMRCs, UPICs, and SIUs have…
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 the 25th of July unless the Secretary of HHS issues a declaration extending the PHE under what is referred to as the Public Health Services…
January 7, 2021 | By Grant Huang, CPC, CPMA The 2021 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) had included the largest one-year reduction to the Medicare conversion factor (CF) in more than 20 years, but it won’t actually take effect because the CF is being increased as a result of provisions in the recently passed stimulus legislation.…