OIG Audit Finds 61% Of Medicare Claims For Outpatient PT Noncompliant
What would we do without the Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services? More commonly known as CMS, the collection of the health insurance...
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- Aug 23, 2017
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OIG Issues Largest EMTALA Fine In History Of The 31 Year-Old Law
In 1986, the federal government enacted the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. Known as EMTALA, for short, it’s a law that...
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- Jul 26, 2016
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Alert: Proposed CMS rule for coordinated cardiac and hip fracture care
CMS released yesterday that it plans to expand the CJR (Comprehensive Joint Replacement) bundled payment system to include not only...
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- Jul 25, 2016
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CMS Projections of National Health Expenditures Data Released
Office of the Actuary in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released its annual projections of health care spending for...
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- Jul 20, 2016
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Alert: CMS IRF and LTCH Quality Reporting Training in August!
CMS posted that registration is open for in person provider training for both rehabilitation and long-term hospital providers. Inpatient...
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- Jul 1, 2016
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2017 ICD-10-CM Update Released
Yep, the updated ICD-10-CM and PCS code sets are posted! Fast Facts: 1,943 new codes, 351 revised codes, and 313 deleted codes. 2017 Code...
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- Jun 30, 2016
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Move over CJR…Here comes OCM!!!
CMS implemented the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) bundled reimbursement as of April 1st, 2016, and there are still more...
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- Jun 2, 2016
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CMS In Hot Water For Inability To Stop Medicaid And Medicare Abuse
At Allegiant Experts, we wholeheartedly believe that we side with what’s right. It is right that Americans have access to much needed...
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- May 26, 2016
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CMS releases new ICD-10 Resources
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released updates to the ICD-10 Provider Resources page. Please check out the...
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- May 24, 2016
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New bill would expand the scope of who can be excluded due to healthcare fraud
US House of representatives Lois Frankel (D-Fla.) and William Keating (D-Mass.) introduced a bill to amend title XI of the SSA to expand...
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- Apr 4, 2016
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The Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) Model is here!
Medicare has implemented the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) Model as of April 1st, 2016! Yep, as if the DRG system and...
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- Feb 29, 2016
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Readmission Rates are Down?
Is the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP) reducing hospital readmission rates? The New England Journal of Medicine published a...
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