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 […]
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 […]
CMS ICD-10 Grace Period Coming to an End
Last October, ICD-9 was replaced with ICD-10. The creation of ICD-10 had many financial resources directed towards it to make this past year a smoother transition for health care providers. Preparations prior to launching the system made for a fairly successful first year without the expected denials and rejections that normally come with implementing a […]
