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Did you know that the CMS conducts various patient satisfaction surveys each year?Most of such surveys are in the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) family of surveys, overseen by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).CAHPS surveys ask patients to r...

Are you a mental health provider planning to enroll with some insurance payers?Did you know that payer enrollment is complicated process that can take up to 180 days to be completed? Moreover, healthcare providers also have to dedicate lots of their time & effort on preparation of each applicati...

Insurance payers want practitioners to be as precise as possible. Did you know that about 10% of claim denials for outpatient office visits occur because providers fail to indicate whether a patient has already visited their office before or not?The CPT guidebook defines a new patient as “one ...

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, many insurance payers have lifted or reversed their reimbursement policies. For example, some out-of-network services are temporary payable by various commercial, HMO and Medicare/Medicaid advantage plans. In New York, COVID-19 vaccine administration is ...

With over half a million cases currently reported in the US every day, the COVID-19 pandemic is far from being over. A constant feeling of responsibility mixed with a trivial fear of getting sick from yet another new variant of the virus has encouraged millions of Americans to get a jab.As safe as t...

The COVID-19 pandemic has been ongoing for nearly two years already. With businesses choosing between going fully remote or bankrupt, healthcare providers opt in to perform more telemedicine services than ever. Surprisingly, hospitals are taking the lead. In 2022, treatment cooperation between so-ca...

Are you a psychiatrist treating uninsured or self-pay patients? If so, you are now required to provide a good faith estimate (GFE) of costs of your services to such patients. Pursuant to the No Surprises Act, healthcare providers must reveal an estimate of expected charges for a certain service or a...

Enrolling with an insurance payer is quite a complicated and time-consuming process. Healthcare providers normally have to wait for up to 4 months to become a participating provider with an insurance payer. An insurance panel (or “a payer panel”, “an enrollment ...

  Insurance claims billing and collection is an extremely complicated process. Medical providers and their staff constantly have to make sure that their payer claims are paid by insurance carriers, let alone paid appropriately. While payers rush to make their clinical reimbursement poli...

Insurance claims billing has never been an easy process. However, while it is true that the process of claim filing is quite cumbersome because of a lot of seemingly unnecessary information that you need to specify, it is nevertheless critical. Insurance payers must be aware of all the specific...

Did you know that the US Congress passed the largest spending bill in its history almost 1 year ago?On December 27, 2020, then-President Donald J. Trump signed into law a 5,593 pages-long bipartisan legislation entitled “The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021” aimed at distributing CO...

Did you know that physical therapists are allowed to remotely supervise PTAs that are following the treatment plan previously developed by a PT? Medicare covers remote physical therapy supervision services as long as the Public Health Emergency is in effect. This new flexibility, called "di...

2021 is coming to an end. Many healthcare providers and their patients receiving hospital care through Medicare Part A, are concerned about any potential updates in their coverage next year. Fortunately, there are no significant policy or coverage updates that affect exclusively Medicare Part A...

COVID-19 pandemic has put an extremely serious challenge on doctors and other practitioners all over the country. This challenge is not limited to constant protection and saving us from a new deadly virus. Since early 2020, millions of people worldwide have suffered from mental health disorders. Spe...

With the COVID-19 pandemic still at its highest, many outpatient healthcare offices are experiencing a shortage in patients’ appointments. While some patients may prefer to have a telemedicine visit in order not to expose themselves to the virus, others may not be wishing to schedule an appoin...