A recent CNN report has highlighted the 24.4% cut Medicare doctors are going to face in their reimbursements from January 1, 2014. This is much higher than the 2% reduction in 2013. This scheduled...
Medical Testing Price Comparison by Physicians Can Cut Health Care Costs
It is expected that total health care spending in the United States will reach $4.8 trillion or nearly 20 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2021. Increasing health care costs are straining...
Anesthesia Coding, Its Difficulties and Challenges
In the realm of medical coding, anesthesia coding is a specialized branch that requires an understanding of the intricacies involved in anesthesia coding guidelines to provide an accurate charge...
Move towards Healthcare for Angel Investments
A significant trend has emerged in angel investments in the United States. Angel investor groups are heading towards healthcare, if research on the first quarter of the current financial year is to...
Preexisting Condition Exclusions under HIPAA – An Overview
Pre-existing condition exclusion signifies a limitation or exclusion of benefits for a health condition on the grounds that it was present before the coverage begins irrespective of whether any...
Insurance Contracts and Its Implications in Insurance Verifications
If there is something that doctors and healthcare professionals cannot quite manage, it is going through detailed documentation. They have important tasks at hand, providing life saving care to...
Growing Significance of Mobile Applications for Healthcare Industry
Medical mobile applications are empowering physicians as well as patients and playing an important role in the healthcare system. Mobile apps have changed the way diseases are diagnosed, monitored...
Transitional Care Management – Getting it Right
Two new CPT Transitional Care Management (TCM) codes have been created to ensure better coordination of care and to provide better incentives so that patients are treated in a primary care physician...
Healthcare Providers Awaiting Elimination of Medicare SGR
Healthcare providers are now hoping that Sustainable Growth Rate or SGR will be eliminated. Introduced by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), SGR is used to control Medicare spending...