Searching Vaughn Articles (645)
Title |
Date |
|---|---|
| Cunts R Us | 02/28/23 |
| Billing for Teaching CRNAs | 09/01/22 |
| No Surprises Act Final Rule | 08/22/22 |
| UDT; Recent Audits | 08/08/22 |
| PHE Extended | 07/24/22 |
| Proposal to Bundle U/S in 2023 | 07/18/22 |
| Noridian's Nationwide Facet Audits | 06/24/22 |
| Central Line: Where Does It End? | 04/22/22 |
| CRNA Supervision in Non-Opt-Out States | 04/18/22 |
| OIG's Playbook for Facet Audits | 04/01/22 |
| Recent HIPAA Cases | 04/01/22 |
| CMS Memo on Amniotic Fluid and Placental Tissue | 03/28/22 |
| No Surprises Act: Court Disallows IDR Process | 02/25/22 |
| Cell Phone Use in the OR | 02/07/22 |
| Depo-Medrol Not Allowed in ESIs? | 12/15/21 |
| Surprise Billing Act Forms | 12/06/21 |
| Highlights of 2022 Medicare Physician's Fee Schedule Final Rule | 11/07/21 |
| OIG New Opinion on Anesthesia Kickbacks for Pain Practices | 11/05/21 |
| New Nationwide Epidural LCDs | 10/31/21 |
| $16mm UDT Settlement | 10/25/21 |
| OIG Targets SCS | 10/07/21 |
| How to Know if Medicare Will Audit You for UDT | 10/05/21 |
| No Surprises Act: 2nd Interim Rule | 10/04/21 |
| PRF Reporting | 09/12/21 |
| Too Many UDTs | 07/08/21 |
| No Surprises Act: Interim Final Rule | 07/07/21 |
| SCS: Prior Medicare Authorization in HOPD | 07/07/21 |
| Fluoro with Pump Refills? | 07/04/21 |
| AMA Clarifies Coding of a Popliteal Fossa Block | 06/30/21 |
| Reporting for PRF Money Updated | 06/15/21 |
| AMA Clarifies the Amount of Data for E/M Coding | 06/09/21 |
| What if the Patient is Afraid of RF? | 04/30/21 |
| Append KX Modifier for Dx Facet Blocks | 04/28/21 |
| New Facet LCD Updates | 04/27/21 |
| Medicare PowerPoint on New Facet Policy | 04/26/21 |
| EPIC: Denied Claims for No CRNA Electronic Signature | 04/23/21 |
| Facet "Gotcha" | 04/20/21 |
| U/S Billable for Arterial Line Placement | 04/19/21 |
| New Facet Policies Nationwide | 04/16/21 |
| 2021 Back and Knee Brace Denials | 02/02/21 |
| Landmark Case: HIPAA Fine Reversed | 01/21/21 |
| New Act: More Money; Surprise Medical Billing | 12/28/20 |
| Proposed Rule to Amend HIPAA | 12/23/20 |
| More Government Money Coming | 12/21/20 |
| CMS Releases 2021 Medicare Final Rule | 12/03/20 |
| CMS Releases New Stark Final Rule | 11/24/20 |
| New OIG Kickback Final Rule | 11/23/20 |
| Imminent Ransomware Threat | 10/29/20 |
| Updates to OIG Work Plan | 10/28/20 |
| Facet Overutilization: OIG Audit | 10/13/20 |
| New Repayment Terms for Medicare Loans Made to Providers during COVID-19 | 10/09/20 |
| Telemedicine Takedown | 10/02/20 |
| PHE Expense Code is Being Paid | 10/01/20 |
| Another $20 Billion in Provider Relief Funds | 10/01/20 |
| Recent Large HIPAA Settlements | 09/24/20 |
| Update of Provider Relief Fund Reporting Requirements | 09/21/20 |
| New CPT Code for PHE Expenses | 09/17/20 |
| HIPAA: Windows 7 | 08/14/20 |
| HIPAA Settlement: $1,040,000 | 07/28/20 |
| Appeals vs Reopenings: Telehealth POS | 07/27/20 |
| No Telehealth Billing Out of the "United States" | 07/24/20 |
| You Can Still Apply for a PPP Loan | 07/06/20 |
| Mandatory New ABN Form | 07/06/20 |
| CS Modifier - Cost Sharing Waiver | 06/19/20 |
| Quarterly Reports Delayed for HHS Relief Funds | 06/16/20 |
| Quarterly Reports Due on PPP/HHS Funds | 06/08/20 |
| PPP Act Amended with More Favorable Terms | 06/05/20 |
| HHS Calculations for the $20 Billion in Relief Funds | 06/01/20 |
| The Catastrophe Related Modifier | 06/01/20 |
| SBA Clarifies PPP Loan Forgiveness Rules | 05/23/20 |
| DOJ Settles UDT Overutilization Case | 05/15/20 |
| News Media Filming Patients and Areas where PHI is Located. | 05/14/20 |
| Keeping Relief Funds: HHS Liberalizes Balance Billing | 05/13/20 |
| IRS Denies Tax Deduction for PPP Expenses | 05/06/20 |
| Update: Billing Specimen Collection for COVID-19 | 05/05/20 |
| More Money for Telehealth Telephone Calls | 05/01/20 |
| New Codes & Reimbursement for COVID-19 Testing | 04/27/20 |
| New Relief Fund FAQs | 04/27/20 |
| Update on the New $20 Billion in Relief Funds | 04/26/20 |
| Another $20 Billion in Relief Funds | 04/24/20 |
| COVID-19 HIPAA Guidance | 04/24/20 |
| Additional CARES Act Funding and Tax Breaks | 04/19/20 |
| New HHS Guidance on Relief Funds | 04/14/20 |
| Surprise Money; Strings Attached | 04/11/20 |
| Obtaining Advance Payments for Future Claims from Medicare | 04/09/20 |
| Updated FAQs on Paycheck Protection Program | 04/09/20 |
| SBA Issues Interim Final Rule on Paycheck Protection Program | 04/03/20 |
| Medicare Reverses Course on Telehealth | 04/02/20 |
| New CMS Rule on How to Document Telehealth E/M Visits | 04/02/20 |
| Medicare Now Allows Telephone Calls but Payment is Poor | 04/02/20 |
| The Paycheck Protection Program under the CARES Act | 03/31/20 |
| Anesthesia Billing Scenarios for COVID-19 Patients | 03/22/20 |
| DEA Issues Telehealth Waiver for Controlled Substances | 03/20/20 |
| Telehealth Billing During the Coronavirus | 03/17/20 |
| Billing QZ for AAs | 03/04/20 |
| Medicare Enrollment Revalidation | 02/05/20 |
| CMS Changes to DME Orders | 01/07/20 |
| E/M Overhaul for 2021 | 12/29/19 |
| What's New for Chronic Pain in 2020 | 12/28/19 |
| What's New for Anesthesia in 2020 | 12/27/19 |
| Primer for Ordering Back Braces | 09/06/19 |
| Credentialing Prohibition for CMS Debtors | 09/06/19 |
| New False Claims Act Case Involving UDT | 08/04/19 |
| New Medicare Part D Opioid Policies for 2019 | 05/20/19 |
| AMA Reverses Opinion on Cryoablation Coding | 05/08/19 |
| Physician Office Lab Reporting Requirements | 04/19/19 |
| Medicare Credentialing: Authorized Official vs Delegated Official | 02/06/19 |
| New 855I Enrollment Form | 01/31/19 |
| New DOS Rules | 01/29/19 |
| Injection of the Sciatic Notch | 01/19/19 |
| Does Modifier 50 Apply to TPIs? | 01/19/19 |
| How to Code an Erector Spinae Block | 01/19/19 |
| What's New for Anesthesia in 2019 | 12/29/18 |
| What's New for Pain Management in 2019 | 12/29/18 |
| New Criminal Statute re Lab Payments | 12/29/18 |
| CMS Changes to E/M Payment & Documentation | 11/05/18 |
| "Incident to" Billing | 10/24/18 |
| QZ vs AD - New Case | 09/17/18 |
| Medicare Proposes Revised E/M Payment & Documentation Rules | 07/15/18 |
| Palmetto Takes Over Cahaba Providers | 03/01/18 |
| Anthem Restricts Use of Anesthesia for Cataract Surgery | 02/12/18 |
| AMA Modifies Coding Opinion for Genicular RF | 02/12/18 |
| Medicare Follow-up Regarding Genicular Blocks | 02/12/18 |
| Back and Knee Braces Hit the OIG's Work Plan | 01/28/18 |
| 2018 Base Unit Values- ASA RVG vs. CMS | 01/11/18 |
| 2018 Changes to ASA Crosswalk and RVG | 01/09/18 |
| New MAC Colonoscopy LCD Will Require Appeal | 12/22/17 |
| Recap of 2017 HIPAA Cases and Guidance | 12/17/17 |
| Final 2018 UDT Payment Rates | 12/16/17 |
| What's New in Chronic Pain for 2018 | 12/11/17 |
| The Colonoscopy Conundrum | 12/11/17 |
| Reduced UDT Rates Proposed by CMS | 10/05/17 |
| Stopping Medicare Recoupment on Appeal | 09/05/17 |
| New QMB Guidance | 07/05/17 |
| New Guidance from OCR on Cyber Attacks | 06/09/17 |
| Protecting Against the Worldwide Ransomware Attack | 05/15/17 |
| 2017 HIPAA Settlements To Date | 04/25/17 |
| Update of Lab Reporting for POLs | 03/17/17 |
| Lab Reporting Requirements to CMS | 03/01/17 |
| $475,000 Fine for Untimely Breach Notification | 01/11/17 |
| MIPS (Merit-Based Incentive Payment System) | 12/25/16 |
| What's New in Anesthesia for 2017 | 12/13/16 |
| What's New in Chronic Pain for 2017 | 12/09/16 |
| CMS Requires Surgeon to Document Reason for Post-op Pain Block | 12/07/16 |
| Coding the Lesser Occipital Nerve Block | 10/31/16 |
| Pulsed RF with Transforaminal Epidural | 10/31/16 |
| HIPAA and Cloud Service Providers | 10/16/16 |
| New ACA Anti-Discrimination Notices Required | 10/16/16 |
| May a Billing Company Withhold a Client's PHI? | 09/29/16 |
| Billing Psychological Tests under CPT code 96103 | 09/29/16 |
| Coding a Fascia Iliaca Acute Pain Block | 09/06/16 |
| FCA Liability for Too Many Drug Confirmations | 09/06/16 |
| $2.7 Million HIPAA Settlement | 07/20/16 |
| FCA Penalties Proposed to Double | 07/11/16 |
| Business Associate Pays $650,000 | 07/04/16 |
| JW Modifier Must be Billed for Discarded/Wasted Drugs | 05/31/16 |
| Synopsis of MIPS Proposed Rule | 05/01/16 |
| NY Hospital Pays $2.2MM for HIPAA Violation | 04/22/16 |
| $750,000 HIPAA Settlement | 04/21/16 |
| Does PQRS Data Need to Reside in the Official Medical Record? | 04/21/16 |
| New HIPAA FAQs on Patient Access to PHI | 03/27/16 |
| Expensive Laptops | 03/18/16 |
| $1.5 Million HIPAA Breach | 03/17/16 |
| Additional PQRS Measure | 02/27/16 |
| CMS Issues New Final Rule on Refunding Overpayments | 02/14/16 |
| New HIPAA Case: Taking PHI Out of the Office | 02/05/16 |
| New Anesthesia Whistleblower Suit | 02/04/16 |
| Correct Coding for Genicular Nerve Blocks | 02/03/16 |
| Revisions to Ultrasound Interpretation Documentation | 01/08/16 |
| PQRS Reporting Issues for CRNA's | 12/25/15 |
| If No Measures to Report via Claims, Must Migrate to Registry | 12/22/15 |
| What's New in Chronic Pain for 2016 | 12/21/15 |
| PQRS Warning: What if You have No Measures to Report via Claims? | 12/20/15 |
| What's New in Anesthesia for 2016 | 12/20/15 |
| HIPAA Privacy & Security Cases in 2015 | 12/16/15 |
| ICD-10 for DOS that Overlaps 9/30-10/1/15 | 11/02/15 |
| CMS Proposes Massive Drug Code Changes | 09/09/15 |
| Credit Balances and the 60-Day Time Frame to Refund | 08/12/15 |
| 2016 Proposed Physicians Fee Schedule Affects Anesthesia | 07/17/15 |
| Medicare Demand for Your Fingerprints | 06/03/15 |
| Anesthesiologist Indicted in Dallas | 06/02/15 |
| PQRS “Gotcha” Code Change Re Warming Measure 193 | 06/02/15 |
| New CMS Audits of Spinal Cord Stimulators | 06/02/15 |
| How to Code Nitrous Oxide for Labor | 06/01/15 |
| Billing for Daily Management of Post-op Pain Blocks | 06/01/15 |
| Commercial Insurers Must Pay Anesthesia for Colorectal Screenings | 05/26/15 |
| PQRS Measure 47 Form: Care Plan | 05/20/15 |
| Are All Colonoscopies Now Medically Necessary? | 04/20/15 |
| CMS Finally Instructs Carriers to Honor PT Modifier | 04/16/15 |
| Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act becomes Law | 04/16/15 |
| Colorectal Screening; Denial of Claims with Modifier PT | 03/30/15 |
| Urine Drug Test Changes for 2015 | 02/24/15 |
| Update Re: Anesthesia For Colorectal Screenings | 02/19/15 |
| What's New in Chronic Pain 2015 | 02/17/15 |
| Medtronic Settles SubQ Stimulation Case for $2.8mm | 02/06/15 |
| Search Warrant Regarding Urine Drug Screens | 01/04/15 |
| What's New in Anesthesia for 2015 | 01/02/15 |
| Opting Out of EHR Incentive Program: Do You Have to Pay the $ Back? | 08/13/14 |
| Medicare's 2015 Proposed Fee Schedule Rule Changes | 07/10/14 |
| Denials of 64450 | 06/24/14 |
| Medicare Carriers Starting to Deny Acute Pain Blocks | 06/03/14 |
| Free POC Test Cups Violate Stark | 05/18/14 |
| New Whistleblower Suit Alleges Anesthesia Unbundling | 05/14/14 |
| Another Lab Gets Busted for Unnecessary UDS | 03/12/14 |
| New Indictment for Meaningful Use Misrepresentation | 02/25/14 |
| $15mm Settlement for Unnecessary UDS | 02/25/14 |
| Patients Get Broader Access to Lab Test Results | 02/10/14 |
| 2 New Privacy Settlements | 02/10/14 |
| New CMS 1500 Claim Form | 02/07/14 |
| ICD-10 | 02/06/14 |
| Debt Collection Practices | 02/04/14 |
| CMS Issues National Coverage Decision on MILD Procedure | 01/15/14 |
| What's New for 2014 in Anesthesia and Chronic Pain | 01/02/14 |
| New OIG Opinion: Psychiatrists Cannot Share Anesthesia Revenue | 11/13/13 |
| Register by Oct. 15, 2013 to Avoid VM Penalty | 09/20/13 |
| New Whistleblower Suit Challenges "Immediately Available" | 09/17/13 |
| Model Notice of Privacy Practices Form | 09/17/13 |
| TRICARE | 08/25/13 |
| Copier Hard Drives - HIPAA $1.2mm Settlement | 08/15/13 |
| CMS Auditing Transforaminal Epidurals - Again | 08/06/13 |
| Joint Commission "Dings" for Plan Deficiencies | 07/24/13 |
| The 50 Modifier Versus RT and LT | 07/05/13 |
| Hospital Pays $275,000 for Disclosing Patient File to Media | 06/23/13 |
| Pharmacies Requiring Backup Documentation for Schedule II Rx | 06/22/13 |
| If You Owe $, You Can't Add a Provider | 06/22/13 |
| CMS Says AA's Cannot Be Billed QZ | 06/06/13 |
| HIPAA: Website Payment Portals | 05/30/13 |
| OIG Recommends Slashing Prices of Back Braces | 05/30/13 |
| University Pays $400,000 for HIPAA Breach | 05/23/13 |
| AMA Issues 2 Opinions on Facet RF Procedures | 05/12/13 |
| OIG Settlement Involves Immediately Available | 05/09/13 |
| Noridian's Proposed LCD on Bundling Post-op Pain Blocks | 04/09/13 |
| PQRS Penalty in 2015 Uses 2013 Reporting Data | 04/04/13 |
| Anesthesia Qui Tam Suit Settled | 03/29/13 |
| Sequestration: Payment Calculations | 03/26/13 |
| US for Vascular Access Clarified by AMA and CGS | 03/24/13 |
| Medicare Recoupment Period Extended to 5 Years "Plus" | 03/22/13 |
| Immediately Available: Medical Direction vs Hospital CoP's | 02/26/13 |
| Changes to the 2013 Relative Value Guide | 02/12/13 |
| Revised HIPAA Compliance Plan | 02/10/13 |
| HIPAA Final Rule - Part I | 02/04/13 |
| HIPAA Final Rule - Part II | 02/04/13 |
| HIPAA Final Rule Adopted | 01/22/13 |
| What's New in Chronic Pain for 2013 | 01/04/13 |
| Changes to the ASA's Crosswalk for 2013 | 01/03/13 |
| What | 01/01/13 |
| AMA Issues 3 Opinions on Post-op Pain Blocks | 12/29/12 |
| CMS Amends CCI Regarding Post-op Pain Blocks | 12/29/12 |
| ASA Defines "Immediately Available" When Medically Directing | 12/26/12 |
| Supplemental HIPAA Policies | 12/10/12 |
| AMA Renders 3 Opinions on Post-op Pain Blocks | 12/01/12 |
| AMA Renders 3 Opinions on Post-op Pain Blocks | 12/01/12 |
| CMS Allows CRNAs to Practice Chronic Pain | 11/01/12 |
| Anesthesiologists Exempted from EHR Penalties | 09/18/12 |
| $1mm ZPIC Demand: Think Twice Before Changing Corporate Structure | 09/07/12 |
| Moderate Sedation: AMA Defines Intraservice Time | 09/05/12 |
| CMS Proposes to Pay CRNAs to Perform Chronic Pain | 07/12/12 |
| Reasons for Medicare Denials on Audit | 06/22/12 |
| OIG Strikes Down "Company Model" | 06/04/12 |
| CMS Proposes 10-Year Statute of Limitations on Refunds | 02/27/12 |
| Congress Passes Freeze on Physician Pay Cut | 02/17/12 |
| CMS Clarifies New CCI Language Regarding Bundling of Post-op Pain Blocks | 02/12/12 |
| High Complexity UDS - Medicare Adds New Requirements | 01/19/12 |
| CCI Clarifies Post-op Pain Blocks are Billable | 01/04/12 |
| New CPT Code Changes for Chronic Pain in 2012 | 12/19/11 |
| New Anesthesia Issues for 2012 | 12/19/11 |
| CPT 2012 Bundles Fluoro with SIJ Injections | 10/14/11 |
| Hardship Exemptions for eRx Penalties | 10/07/11 |
| Locum Tenens | 09/09/11 |
| Modifier 76 Versus Modifier 59 | 09/06/11 |
| AA's Must be Medically Directed | 08/04/11 |
| Coding for Aspiration of Synovial Cyst of Facet Joint | 08/04/11 |
| Two New CMS Audits Involving Chronic Pain | 07/20/11 |
| OCR Reports 3 Large HIPAA Fines/Settlements | 07/19/11 |
| Mandatory New ABN Forms | 07/19/11 |
| Late Entries to the Medical Record: When is it Too Late? | 07/14/11 |
| AMA Restricts Billing of Moderate Sedation | 06/23/11 |
| CMS Allows Limited Cost Shifting for CRNA's | 05/31/11 |
| Medical Necessity for UDS | 05/26/11 |
| E&M Coding: Documenting Non-medically Necessary Facts | 05/20/11 |
| CMS Instructs Carriers to Deny GZ Claims | 05/12/11 |
| Indictment for Billing Too Much Time | 05/04/11 |
| Ultrasound for Post-op Pain Blocks: Documenting Needle Placement | 04/14/11 |
| Reducing Compliance Exposure by Opting Out of Medicare | 04/14/11 |
| Don't Re-Use Single Use Vials | 04/12/11 |
| Noridian Medicare: CRNA's Cannot Independently Practice Chronic Pain | 04/06/11 |
| Accountable Care Organizations ("ACOs") | 04/04/11 |
| New Effective Date of UDS Code G0434 | 04/01/11 |
| EHR, eRx, and PQRS FAQ's | 04/01/11 |
| EHR, eRx, and PQRS Payments | 04/01/11 |
| Improper Disposal of Narcotics Received from Patients | 03/23/11 |
| AMA Liberalizes Time Deduction Rules | 03/18/11 |
| CMS Issues Additional Guidance on UDS Codes | 02/25/11 |
| ASA Writes Letter to Close EHR Loophole | 02/21/11 |
| TC & PC Components of Fluoro | 02/11/11 |
| Interpretative Guidelines Revised Yet Again | 02/08/11 |
| Liability for Being a Corporate Officer | 01/17/11 |
| AMA Corrects Fluoro Bundled with Epidurals | 01/11/11 |
| Decreased Medicare Reimbursement for 2011 | 01/07/11 |
| Anesthesia CF by Locality for 2011 | 01/07/11 |
| EHR and E Rx | 01/03/11 |
| HIPAA: Notification to Patients/DHHS/Media in Case of Breach | 12/30/10 |
| MILD: AMA Issues Coding Opinion | 12/28/10 |
| Fluoroscopy: AMA Says Bundled with 62310-62319 | 12/28/10 |
| Dead Red Flag | 12/27/10 |
| Spinal Cord Stimulator Leads: AMA Update | 12/21/10 |
| PT: Coding for "One or More Areas" | 12/21/10 |
| "Incident to" Changes | 12/20/10 |
| New Drug Screen Codes for 2011 | 12/17/10 |
| New Changes for 2011 | 12/17/10 |
| Cuts Postponed for Another Year | 12/12/10 |
| Coding Scar Injections | 12/12/10 |
| MedAssurant Audits: Beware | 12/03/10 |
| Should You Lower Your Medicare Charge to the Allowable Amount? | 11/05/10 |
| Ultrasound for Post-op Pain Blocks | 10/28/10 |
| UHC and MedAssurant Audits | 10/17/10 |
| 19 EHR Systems Approved for Purchase | 10/10/10 |
| CMS Complicates Billing Wastage for Drugs | 09/06/10 |
| Ohio Drug Screen Limits Spread to LA and AR | 09/01/10 |
| Drug Screens: Multiple Units of G0431 Being Denied | 08/30/10 |
| Complaint Filed Against Pain Physician | 08/09/10 |
| HIPAA: Shred Your PHI Trash | 08/02/10 |
| Billing for Tobacco, Alcohol, and Substance Abuse Counseling | 07/28/10 |
| HIPAA Response When Receiving PHI on a Patient Who is Not Yours | 07/27/10 |
| Timing of Post-Anesthesia Eval for Outpatients | 07/19/10 |
| 2 Qui Tam Cases Filed Against Pain Physician | 07/09/10 |
| Pain Conviction Upheld; Narcotics; Billing Fraud | 07/09/10 |
| Red Flag Rules Delayed Until ABA Appeal is Final | 07/08/10 |
| Patient Disclosure of Owned Radiology Equipment | 07/08/10 |
| Pay Cuts Halted Until November 30, 2010 | 06/28/10 |
| CMS Issues Clarifying Rules for Legible Signatures | 06/17/10 |
| Hold Off on UDS Equipment Purchases | 06/16/10 |
| E-Prescribing Controlled Substances | 06/15/10 |
| Watch Out for BCBS Audits | 06/10/10 |
| Billing Rounding for Duramorph | 06/10/10 |
| FTC Again Delays Red Flag Implementation | 06/01/10 |
| CMS Gives More Advice on Urine Drug Screen Coding | 05/24/10 |
| Interpretative Guideline Templates | 05/21/10 |
| OIG Now Allows Online Anonymous Fraud Reporting | 05/20/10 |
| Humana Limits Anesthesia for Endo Cases | 05/12/10 |
| Mandatory Compliance Plans? | 05/10/10 |
| Time to File Claims Shortened to One Year | 04/06/10 |
| Changes Wrought by Obama Care | 04/03/10 |
| CMS Explains Drug Testing Codes G0430 and G0431 | 03/30/10 |
| Medicare LCD for Urine Drug Screens | 03/11/10 |
| Region D RAC Targets Anesthesia | 02/16/10 |
| Billing Ultrasound for Regional Blocks | 02/16/10 |
| Billing Medicare for Rounding on Catheters which are Not Epidural Catheters | 02/16/10 |
| RF of the SIJ | 02/16/10 |
| PQRI: New Anesthesia Measure 193: Do You HAVE TO Report It? | 01/01/10 |
| How to Report Anesthesia Measure 193 | 01/01/10 |
| Medicare's New AI Modifier | 12/24/09 |
| Physician Cuts Delayed 60 Days | 12/22/09 |
| CMS Changes Stim Lead Descriptor | 12/22/09 |
| New Joint Commission Rules Affect Anesthesia | 12/21/09 |
| Billing for Stim Leads: Medicare Makes Changes | 12/17/09 |
| Drug Screens: CMS Issues New Advice | 12/17/09 |
| ASA Clarifies Resident and SRNA Rules | 12/16/09 |
| CMS Issues New G Codes for Drug Screens | 12/16/09 |
| AMA Advises How to Code Single Injection Lumbar Plexus Block | 12/14/09 |
| New ASA RVG Coding Comments for 2010 | 12/14/09 |
| CPT 2010 Changes Coding for Stimulator Leads | 11/19/09 |
| CPT 2010 Changes Facet Block Codes | 11/06/09 |
| Medicare Stops Paying for Consults 1/1/10 | 11/06/09 |
| New Teaching Physician Rule Giveth and Taketh Away | 11/06/09 |
| Red Flag Implementation Delayed Again | 11/03/09 |
| CERT Audits Focus on Epidural Documentation | 10/15/09 |
| Medicare Targets Ultrasound for Vascular Access | 09/11/09 |
| Noncoverage for "TIPS" and Anesthesia for "TIPS" | 09/10/09 |
| Get Your Specialty Designation Correct | 09/09/09 |
| AMA Clarifies New Patient Rule | 08/31/09 |
| HITECH HIPAA Regulations Adopted | 08/23/09 |
| Anesthesia Presence Required During Bypass | 08/20/09 |
| Medicare Incentive Payments for EHR | 08/19/09 |
| Failure to Refund is Now a False Claims Act Violation | 07/29/09 |
| OIG Takes a Hard Line on Signatures | 07/28/09 |
| How Many PQRI Measures Do We Have to Report? | 07/10/09 |
| New Rules Proposed in 2010 Fee Schedule | 07/09/09 |
| Who Can Take the History in an E&M Service? | 07/06/09 |
| How to Amend or Correct the Medical Record | 06/30/09 |
| MUE's | 06/30/09 |
| BCBS New Limitations for Blocks | 06/29/09 |
| Social Security Numbers; Red Flag Limitations | 06/29/09 |
| Waiver of Co-pays & Deductibles; Authority | 06/29/09 |
| Sole Owner Physician Who Dies | 06/23/09 |
| CMS Issues RAC Q&A's | 06/19/09 |
| Separate Billing of Vent Management | 06/02/09 |
| AMA Issues Opinion on Coding Ureteral Stones | 05/28/09 |
| Coding for CABG Done Partially On and Partially Off Pump | 05/28/09 |
| New Financial Disclosures & Notice of Patient's Rights for ASC’s | 05/20/09 |
| Red Flag Identity Theft Compliance Program Now Available | 03/26/09 |
| Ownership in Hospitals Must Be Disclosed | 03/13/09 |
| Stark Decision: Not Paying Rent for Pain Clinic | 02/02/09 |
| Coding a Block of the 3rd Occipital Nerve | 02/02/09 |
| Global Period for Stims Reduced to 10 Days | 02/02/09 |
| Cannot Bill Programming for External Stimulator/Trial Leads | 01/26/09 |
| Cannot Bill for Work by Manufacturer Representative | 01/26/09 |
| AMA Bundles Fluoro with Stimulator Electrodes | 01/14/09 |
| Formatting Error | 01/05/09 |
| PQRI for Chronic Pain | 01/04/09 |
| What's New for Chronic Pain in 2009 | 01/04/09 |
| Conviction for Improper Balance Billing | 12/30/08 |
| Are You Checking the OIG Sanctions Database for Administrative Employees? | 12/30/08 |
| CMS Issues NCD for TIPs | 12/29/08 |
| 62311 Cannot be Reported Multiple Times on the Same Date | 12/22/08 |
| PQRI: 4047F-8P; Update | 12/18/08 |
| Summary of Anesthesia Changes for 2009 | 12/16/08 |
| PQRI: Addendum and Update | 12/16/08 |
| New FTC "Red Flag" Regulations | 10/24/08 |
| Hurricane Update | 09/10/08 |
| Hurricane Contact Numbers | 09/03/08 |
| Coding Epidurography Versus Fluoroscopy | 08/26/08 |
| Payment for Medical Supervision: Are More than 4 Concurrent Cases Required? | 08/07/08 |
| Coding for Dye Study for Catheter Patency in Implanted Pump | 07/17/08 |
| 22 Modifier Form | 07/07/08 |
| ASA House of Delegates Says Deduct Time for Lines/Blocks | 07/07/08 |
| Pain Physician Convicted of Improper Incident to Billing | 06/30/08 |
| CMS Allows PQRI Reporting for July-December 2008 | 06/30/08 |
| Percentage Billing Contracts Illegal in Some States | 06/30/08 |
| Medicare Audits Moderate Sedation | 06/25/08 |
| CMS Bans Use of Stamp for Signatures | 06/11/08 |
| U.S. Attorney Investigates Drug Screen Company for Kickbacks to Pain Practices | 06/11/08 |
| CMS Withdraws Incident to Changes | 06/03/08 |
| Billing for Bilateral Greater Occipital Nerve Blocks | 05/30/08 |
| CMS Makes Major Changes to Incident to Rules | 05/27/08 |
| Pre-operatively Placed Post-op Pain Blocks: The AMA Weighs in on How Much Sedation is Allowed | 05/15/08 |
| AMA Addresses Separate Payment for TEE's | 05/14/08 |
| Form for Documenting Post-op Pain Rounds | 05/13/08 |
| Dr. Feel Good | 04/28/08 |
| E&M Coding: "Impossible Days" | 04/28/08 |
| New ABN Form from CMS | 04/11/08 |
| CMS Instructs Florida RAC to Cease and Desist | 03/26/08 |
| Battling Payers' Bundling of Fluoroscopy | 03/25/08 |
| Form: Documenting Ultrasound for Central Lines | 03/17/08 |
| Post Anesthesia Note Form | 03/13/08 |
| Post-Operative Intrathecal/Epidural Duramorph | 02/26/08 |
| EXAMPLE FORM FOR PQRI MEASURE 76 | 02/26/08 |
| Update on RAC Audits | 02/14/08 |
| Rash of Recent Pain Audits in Florida | 02/07/08 |
| 50 Modifier Deleted by CMS for ASC Facility Fee Billing | 01/17/08 |
| PQRI Payments: Just Measures 30 and 76, or All Claims? | 01/08/08 |
| New Anesthesia PQRI Measure: Central Line Sterile Technique | 01/07/08 |
| Congress Rolls Back 10.1% CF Reduction | 01/03/08 |
| Discontinue Using Modifier SG for ASC Facility Claims | 01/03/08 |
| Summary of Changes for Chronic Pain in 2008 | 12/17/07 |
| Summary of 2008 Changes for Anesthesia | 12/16/07 |
| Synopsis of Stark III | 12/16/07 |
| ASA Committee on Economics Agrees with the AMA Regarding Time for Lines and Blocks | 11/26/07 |
| CERT Audits | 11/13/07 |
| CMS Announces Reimbursement for 2008 | 11/04/07 |
| Discogram Bundled with IDET | 10/26/07 |
| Coding for Ganglion Impar Sympathetic Block | 10/26/07 |
| OIG Starts Auditing E&M Codes During the Global Period | 10/26/07 |
| OIG Starts Nationwide Audits of Interventional Pain Physicians | 10/11/07 |
| How to Code Popliteal Blocks: Sciatic versus Peripheral | 10/05/07 |
| CMS Agrees to Pay for Moderate Sedation | 08/31/07 |
| New BCBS Rule re Time for Post-op Pain Blocks | 08/29/07 |
| Multiple Levels of Fluoro Revisited | 08/29/07 |
| Sacral Vertebroplasty Denial Reversed by ALJ | 08/17/07 |
| CMS Starts Auditing 99233 | 08/17/07 |
| Civil and Criminal Liability for Coders and Other Non-Providers | 08/11/07 |
| Advice Regarding BCBS Chronic Pain Audits | 07/30/07 |
| Proposed Anesthesia Reimbursement for 2008 | 07/30/07 |
| Proposed ASC Reimbursement Rates for 2008 | 07/30/07 |
| Using Ultrasound with Central Lines | 07/22/07 |
| Charging Medicare Patients for Missed Appointments | 07/22/07 |
| Required Use of 9-Digit Zip Code Effective 10/1/07 | 07/22/07 |
| Clarification About AMA's Opinion on Anesthesia Time | 07/16/07 |
| AMA Issues New Opinion re Billing Anesthesia Time | 07/11/07 |
| Update on Radioactive Seed Implants | 06/28/07 |
| Coding Controversy re Prostate Seed Radiation Therapy | 06/25/07 |
| Medicare Audits 25 Modifier and Overutilization of Epidurals | 06/25/07 |
| PQRI Update | 06/23/07 |
| New CMS 1500 Forms Required as of 7/2/07 | 06/05/07 |
| MUE's | 06/05/07 |
| Watch Out for BCBS | 05/30/07 |
| Appeal Reopenings vs Redeterminations | 05/29/07 |
| CMS Says the Physician Must Capture the CC & HPI | 05/22/07 |
| More Convictions for VAX-D | 05/20/07 |
| Check the OIG Sanctions Database | 05/20/07 |
| Physician Convicted of Billing Too Many Drug Screens | 05/20/07 |
| CMS Pay for Performance Standards Released | 05/20/07 |
| Trying to be a Good Samaritan Can Backfire | 05/20/07 |
| Program Safeguard Contractors Audit Chronic Pain Physicians | 05/16/07 |
| Neonatal Critical Care: Must the MD Remain In-House for 24 Hours? | 05/15/07 |
| Multiple Fluoroscopy Codes on the Same Date of Service | 04/04/07 |
| RAC's Go After Endoscopies | 04/04/07 |
| Billing Bone Biopsies with Vertebroplasty and/or Kyphoplasty | 03/26/07 |
| Brachytherapy: 00902 or 00400 | 03/26/07 |
| Pay for Performance | 02/26/07 |
| GA Medicare Rules that AA's Cannot Bill QZ | 02/21/07 |
| Compliance Events in 2006 Affecting Anesthesia | 02/20/07 |
| Compliance Events in 2006 Affecting Chronic Pain | 02/20/07 |
| Amended Anesthesia CF | 12/22/06 |
| Medicare Issues Warning about NCV Tests using NEUROmetrix | 11/26/06 |
| What's New For Anesthesia Coding and Reimbursement in 2007 | 11/12/06 |
| What's New in Chronic Pain Coding and Reimbursement for 2007 | 11/12/06 |
| Update of Government's Fraud and Abuse Efforts | 10/17/06 |
| Obtaining Payer Consent to Bill Pulsed RF with Regular RF Codes | 10/08/06 |
| OIG Releases 2007 Work Plan | 09/26/06 |
| Anesthesiologist’s License Revoked for Improper Billing Practices | 09/26/06 |
| DEA Issues Proposed Rule on Multiple Prescriptions for Schedule II Controlled Substances | 09/14/06 |
| Medicare Freeze of Payments in September | 09/06/06 |
| Texas Medicare Approves Multiple Levels of Fluoroscopy | 07/25/06 |
| Wrongful Balance Billing Results in Punitive Damages | 07/24/06 |
| Medtronic, Accused of Kickbacks, Agrees to Pay $40 Million | 07/24/06 |
| Medicare Patients Can be Turned Away if Costs Excessive | 07/19/06 |
| Tenet Agrees to Pay $900 Million to Settle Charges | 07/11/06 |
| AMA and Medicare (FL) Issue New Guidance on Moderate Sedation | 07/11/06 |
| Consults: New Documentation Trap for the Unwary | 07/11/06 |
| CMS Issues NCD on Artificial Disc Replacement | 07/07/06 |
| Pulsed RF Denied as Investigational by Anthem BC | 06/23/06 |
| Claim Error Rate Should Not Exceed 5% | 06/23/06 |
| Policy for Charting Vitals to Document Time | 06/23/06 |
| Life Sentence for Health Care Fraud Resulting in Death | 06/22/06 |
| Final HIPAA Enforcement Rules | 06/22/06 |
| VAX-D Lands Providers in Jail | 06/22/06 |
| Billing for Removal of Multiple Stimulator Leads | 06/16/06 |
| Services Performed in the ASC Which are Not on the ASC List | 06/15/06 |
| AMA Opinion on Coding Ganglion Impar Block | 06/15/06 |
| CMS Rejects Payment to Anesthesiologists in Connection with SRNA's | 06/15/06 |
| Billing Multiple Instances of Fluoroscopy in the Same Spinal Region | 06/15/06 |
| Coding a Bier Block for Chronic Pain | 05/09/06 |
| OIG Issues New Guidance on Billing Consults | 05/02/06 |
| You May Get a New Carrier Which Changes Your LCD's | 05/02/06 |
| Recovery Audit Contractors (RAC's) are Paid on a Contingency | 05/02/06 |
| Billing for a Combined Spinal Epidural (“CSE”) | 04/20/06 |
| Combination Anesthetic and Steroid Injections | 04/09/06 |
| Pre-operative Critical Care | 04/09/06 |
| Making More Money with Modifier 22 | 04/09/06 |
| Medicare Rescinds Non-Payment Rule for Bilateral Transforaminal Epidurals | 03/30/06 |
| AMA Rules that Cryoablation of Facet Nerves can be Coded as 64622-62627 | 03/09/06 |
| Bolus of Indwelling Catheter can be Billed as 01996, even though the Infusion is Not Continuous | 03/09/06 |
| AMA Issues Clarification of Billing for Lysis of Adhesions | 03/09/06 |
| A Primer on Prescribing Controlled Substances | 02/23/06 |
| Ohio Medicare: Exceptions to Medical Direction | 02/18/06 |
| Discounting Out-of-Network Co-pays | 02/16/06 |
| How to Code Anesthesia for Discontinued Surgeries | 02/12/06 |
| Pain Physician Convicted of Improper Coding and Excessive Prescriptions | 01/23/06 |
| New Medicare Objective Requirements for Pain Blocks Other than Epidurals | 01/22/06 |
| Medicare Moves to Adopt Restrictive Criteria for Chronic Pain Blocks | 01/15/06 |
| Proper Usage of the 25 Modifier (Billing a Visit/Consult on the Same Date as a Procedure) | 01/06/06 |
| CMS Proposes Limitations on Bariatric Surgery Coverage | 12/12/05 |
| Texas Medicare Expands QZ Coverage for Incomplete Medical Direction | 11/29/05 |
| Incident to: "Initial Services" from LA Medicare | 11/29/05 |
| CMS 2006 Conversion Factors | 11/27/05 |
| Teaching Anesthesiologist Rule Change Denied by CMS | 11/27/05 |
| Base Units Announced by CMS for New Abortion Codes | 11/27/05 |
| OIG 2004 Annual Report on Fraud & Abuse | 11/03/05 |
| New Bankruptcy Act Helps Medical Collections | 11/03/05 |
| PA Medicare: Chronic Pain is an Exception to Medical Direction | 11/03/05 |
| SC Medicare Discovers New Software Compliance Problem | 10/24/05 |
| CPT 2006 Changes | 10/24/05 |
| Diagnostic Tee Placement During Anesthesia | 10/17/05 |
| What to Do about the New NPI Numbers? | 10/10/05 |
| LOCM in FLorida | 10/06/05 |
| Ohio Medicare Adopts QZ for Incomplete Medical Direction | 09/21/05 |
| Hospital Requirement to Provide Anesthesia Does Not Constitute Medical Necessity | 09/12/05 |
| Anesthesiologist Cannot Bill for Supervising SRNA's Insertion of Invasive Lines | 09/12/05 |
| Powered Up and Running | 09/06/05 |
| Medical Direction Rules vs. Hospital Conditions of Participation Rules | 08/11/05 |
| TEE's: PA Medicare Disagrees with Noridian Medicare | 07/13/05 |
| Coding Obstretrical vs Gynecological D&C Procedures | 07/13/05 |
| Leasing Hospital Outpatient Space 1/2 Day Per Week Disapproved by NY Medicare | 07/11/05 |
| Prescribing "Off-label" Drug Use | 07/06/05 |
| Pain Physician Sentenced to 25 Years | 07/06/05 |
| Coding Cranial Neurostimulators - 5 Units or 11 Units? | 07/06/05 |
| How Frequent is Frequent Monitoring? | 06/08/05 |
| Billing Vertebroplasty at the Sacral Level | 05/20/05 |
| CMS Rejects Payment for Contrast | 03/27/05 |
| Signing Prescriptions in Advance | 02/27/05 |
| Physician Supervision of CRNA for Office Anesthesia | 02/20/05 |
| Number of Transforaminal Epidural Injections | 02/15/05 |
| How Much of the Initial Visit Must the MD Perform? | 01/31/05 |
| New Weapon to Fight for Conscious Sedation Payment | 01/31/05 |
| Reimbursement for Contrast for Spinal Injections | 01/12/05 |
| United Healthcare Settles Fraud Charges with DOJ | 01/10/05 |
| Incident To: What "Initial Service" Must the MD Perform | 12/29/04 |
| New Medicare Conversion Factor for Anesthesia | 11/14/04 |
| New Medicare Conversion Factor for Pain | 11/14/04 |
| HIPAA - No Private Right of Action | 11/01/04 |
| Conscious Sedation | 10/04/04 |
| AMA Reverses Opinion on Pulsed Radiofrequency | 09/01/04 |
| Exceptions to Medical Direction; Chronic Pain Epidural | 09/01/04 |
| Blocking Versus Destruction of Facet Nerves | 08/24/04 |
| Modifiers Approved by Medicare | 08/22/04 |
| Medicare Approved Base Units | 08/22/04 |
| Conversion Factor Based on Zip Code of the Service | 08/22/04 |
| Pulsed RF Coding Per AMA | 08/17/04 |
| Proposed 2005 Fee Schedule Contains New Rules | 08/04/04 |
| Participating Physicians at Non-Participating ASCs | 07/20/04 |
| CMS Bundles Lidocaine | 07/12/04 |
| Changes to Incident To Rule | 07/08/04 |
| How to Make Voluntary Refunds to Medicare | 07/02/04 |
| Pain Physician's License Suspended for Failure to Document Meds | 07/01/04 |
| CMS Unbundles Various Pain Procedures Effective 1/1/2004 | 07/01/04 |
| New Opiod Model Policy | 06/30/04 |
| Physicians at the Full Service Pump | 06/25/04 |
| Exceptions to Medical Direction in Virginia | 06/24/04 |
| Nebraska Medicaid Allows QZ | 06/24/04 |
| Minnesota Medicaid Allows QZ | 06/24/04 |
| Professional Courtesy Letter to Insurers and Sample Professional Courtesy Policy | 06/10/04 |
| Iowa Medicaid: Incomplete Medical Direction | 06/07/04 |
| Billing for Prolotherapy | 06/04/04 |
| Time Frame to File Medicare Claims | 05/31/04 |
| Increased Payment and Coding for Healthcare Professional Shortage Area | 05/30/04 |
| Medicare Payment Structure for PA's | 05/30/04 |
| Medicare Rules for Payment and Billing for CRNA's | 05/30/04 |
| Credit Balances Less than $10 Owed to Medicare | 05/24/04 |
| Medicare Correction of Contrast HCPCS Codes | 05/24/04 |
| Medicare Warns of Duplicate Submission of Claims | 05/24/04 |
| Coding for Kyphoplasty | 05/21/04 |
| TVT Sling | 05/21/04 |
| AMA Coding Opinion on Catheter Threaded Multi-level Transforaminal Epidural | 05/19/04 |
| Incident To Physician Must be Listed on CMS 1500 Form | 05/19/04 |
| Coding for Shoulders: Hemi vs. Total | 05/18/04 |
| Cross-Circuiting the Crosswalk: Using the Alternate Code | 05/18/04 |
| Changes to "Incident to"; Shared E&M Inpatient Visits Between MD and non-MD | 05/18/04 |
| Changes to Professional Courtesy Rules | 05/17/04 |
| Required Medicare Independent Contractor Clauses | 05/14/04 |
| Winning the Fight for Fluoroscopy | 05/07/04 |
| ABNs: Advanced Notice Advances Payment | 05/07/04 |
| ABNs: One Form Will Suffice | 05/07/04 |
| OIG Alert: Charging Extra to Beneficiaries | 04/27/04 |
| Gastro Societies Recommend GI Doctors to Perform Sedation | 04/27/04 |
| Medicare Secondary Payor | 04/23/04 |
| Medicare Appeals | 04/23/04 |
| New Stark Definition of Fair Market Value | 04/23/04 |
| Government Recoveries Against Providers Increase | 04/23/04 |
| Crosswalk Base Unit Changes for 2004 | 04/01/04 |
| CRNA Supervision of SRNA's | 03/26/04 |
| Student Nurses (SRNA's) | 03/25/04 |
| No More 90-Day Grace Period for New Codes | 03/02/04 |
| New Reassignment Rules | 03/01/04 |
| CRNA’s: Independent Contractors or Employees | 03/01/04 |
| Discounts for Uninsured Patients | 02/01/04 |
| New HIPAA Opinion | 02/01/04 |
| New Rules on Voluntary Medicare Refunds | 02/01/04 |
| Effect of the Changes to the MAC Definition | 01/03/04 |
| Extrapolation and Repayment Rules Relaxed | 01/02/04 |
| The 2004 New Codes and Base Units | 01/01/04 |
| New Teaching Anesthesiologist Reimbursement | 01/01/04 |
| Supervision: Rule regarding supervision of nurse anesthetists eliminated | 05/21/01 |
| Signatures Required on Anesthesia Record | 10/11/97 |
| Modifier 51 | 02/01/97 |