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.…