Effective January 1, 2020, all claims submitted to Medicare must be billed with the new Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI) in place of the Health Insurance Claim number (HICN). Starting in 2018, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services started sending...
For long, the US Healthcare system has been predominantly based on the fee-for-service model wherein the patient receives quality care and the medical bill payment will be done by either the patient...
Rheumatoid arthritis is an auto immune disease primarily affecting the synovial tissues surrounding the joints. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 1.5...
Even with the establishment of the Affordable Care Act to help avoid mounting bills, consumers are getting drowned in huge medical debts. For physicians too, medical debt collection is more...
At the end of October 2014, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2015 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS), which updates payment policies and payment rates for...
A few months ago, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) data showed a decline in obesity rates in American children. Now, Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index survey has found that adult obesity rate...
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as Obamacare was enacted with the goals of making healthcare more accessible, affordable, and of higher quality, while reducing...
Medicare does not cover all health-related services and medical supplies and pays 80 percent of allowed expenses. Enrollees must still pay Medicare copayments, deductibles and coinsurance amounts...
In a press release published on October 9, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Sylvia Burwell announced next year's standard Medicare premium and deductibles with no change for Part B...
Physician quality reporting system (PQRS) was established in 2007 and is a pay for reporting program that provides a combination of incentive payments and negative payment adjustments to encourage...
When patients are about to have a surgery, their major concerns include the efficacy of drugs that they are put under. With the acute shortage of anesthesia drugs, anesthesiology practices are...