We find ourselves halfway through 2022 and already we’re looking forward to the end of the year to see what those 2023 documentation guideline changes will be. I am most excited to see what those changes will be as we expand 2021 documentation guidelines into other types and places of E&M services and personally, I…
May 20, 2022 | By Toni Elhoms, CCS, CPC, CPMA, CRC Over the past year and a half, I have seen a significant increase in the volume of Unified Program Integrity Contractor (UPIC) investigations taking place in private physician practices. UPICs work on behalf of CMS to perform program integrity functions like detecting fraud,…
June 26, 2020 | By Holly Cassano, CPC, CRC As we move through the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us in health care are finding that many opinions and much guidance exists on the topic of telehealth/telemedicine, from many various sources. At the beginning of the COVID-19 public health emergency, the rules literally seemed to change…
May 1, 2020 | By Stephanie Allard, CPC, CEMA, RHIT Over the years I have found that one of the main risks to an organization are employees who get comfortable in their positions to the point where the explanation for or response to an audit variance is “that is how we have always…