Many times when I talk to business owners I get a level of discomfort with the concept of hiring workers overseas. This ranges from slight uneasiness to outright hostility....
What Does Increased Physician Employment Mean for Medical Billing Companies? According to research done by the AMA, “for the first time, fewer physicians are owners than employees.” In 2018,...
The Senate Finance Committee has come up with a reintroduction of the bipartisan bill intended to develop care for the chronically ill Medicare population. First introduced in 2015, the...
The Medicare program allows the beneficiaries to receive formal notifications concerning the different benefits, denials and coverage status from the providers. The Advance Beneficiary Notices of Non-Coverage and Skilled...
After taking the President’s Office, Donald Trump issued an order, which places a hiring freeze for all the federal agencies. However, in the month of April, the freeze was...
Under the tenure of President Donald Trump, some of the key HHS positions are remaining vacant mostly at the subcabinet level. In the Department of Health and Human Services...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has unveiled their latest website hhs.gov that provides highlighted and detailed information concerning the efforts of the administration in fostering and...
A recently released report by the Government Accountability Office offers an insightful review into the effectiveness of numerous attempts undertaken by the Department of Health and Human Services. It...
The stalling of the health care bill has put increasing pressure on President Donald Trump and the new Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price. Together, both of them...
It is reported that doctors are potentially facing loss of millions of dollars in Medicare reimbursement. This is due to the lack of MACRA-related guidance from the CMS, says...
HHS Secretary Dr. Tom Price has stated that the Republicans “believe in the guarantee of Medicare for our seniors.” This new statement has been issued in the backdrop of...
Governors from across the country are scheduled to meet President Trump next week to discuss healthcare reforms and various other issues. The governors have quickly convened the meeting in...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has taken the necessary steps in ensuring enough incentives for the states. This ensures that the billions of dollars received for...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) program made a recent announcement of an additional eight million dollars in funding for the Special Innovation...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a report on Oct 7 that documents about $34 million in payments that are improperly...
The recently released final rule from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has enabled the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to become...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released updates to their different Medicare payment systems. In a recent move, CMS published the final rules for Hospital Outpatient Prospective...
Recent reports say that one-third of the ECs will be exempted from MIPS reporting, because these ECs fall below the “low volume threshold.” This means that those ECs who...