What’s Changing? Beginning this month, April 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will begin mailing new Medicare cards to all active Medicare beneficiaries. The roll out is expected to last about a year. New cards will no longer contain the subscriber’s social security number due to concerns about identity theft. Instead, they will […]
2017 Medical Billing FAQs
Medical Billing FAQs Below are some common medical billing FAQs regarding the Quality Payment Program (QPP), Chronic Care Management (CCM), Telemedicine, and changes in coding that can affect your practice in 2017. Q: Can chronic care management be implemented in any medical field or specialty? A: CCM is intended to be used by the provider […]
MACRA Will Impact Small Practices
Regardless if you agree with government regulation of healthcare or not, MACRA (Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act) is here, and it isn’t going away. MACRA will impact small practices in a big way. MACRA is going to have a larger, long-term impact on the healthcare business as we know it. The program starts in […]