In these trying times, it is important to keep informed. We will be providing a summary of regulatory changes in this article. Please keep in mind that these changes are considered temporary and will be effective from 3/30/2020 through as long as the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency declaration remains in effect. Other legislation is being […]

The Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) is a Quality Payment Program (QPP) developed by CMS to get providers to focus on performance improvement by paying bonuses to providers who perform well in certain measures. There are four domains that clinicians report on with each accounting for a percentage of your overall score: Quality, Improvement Activities, […]

Beginning April 1, 2018, CMS will be mailing out replacement cards for all Medicare beneficiaries with a Health Insurance Claim Number (HICN). The HICNs are being changed to Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers (MBIs) because the traditional Medicare numbers were based on Social Security Numbers. It is a step CMS is taking to help protect patient information. […]

For dates of service on or after January 1, 2017, home health agencies will have four new G-codes to contend with for skilled nursing services. These new codes will replace retiring codes G0163 and G0164. The new codes are: G0493 – Skilled services of a registered nurse (RN) for the observation and assessment of the […]

If you are in healthcare, you’ve heard the warnings. ICD-10 is coming… to all clinical practices in the United States. ICD-10, or the International Classification of Diseases 10th Edition, was actually started way back in 1983 by the World Health Organization and endorsed in May 1990. ICD-10 has been used in the United States on […]