Archive for the Week of December 14, 2005
Archive for the Week of December 14, 2005
Welcome to the medical billing blog archive for the week of December 14, 2005.
Here you will find links to every article added to the Outsource Management Group web site during the week of December 14, 2005.
You can browse this week's archives by clicking the "More" button from any of the excerpts below.
Medical Billing Mistakes Can Cost Your Thousands
Medical Billing Mistakes Can Cost Your Thousands Don’t let the federal government’s mistake cause your medical billing reimbursement to suffer. In September 2005, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that certain homecare contractors had made a medical billing mistake. It appears they had denied physicians payment for homecare services that should have been reimbursable. This medical billing error has negatively effected many organizations since then. The Medicare denial of payment effected the skilled nursing facilities especially. When physicians did not receive payment for necessary services, they ended up charging the care facilities directly. Unfortunately, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services made a mistake. There were several services …
Excision Medical billing Made Simple
Excision Medical billing Made Simple Excision and Lesion medical billing can leave many doubts in your employees’ minds. There are so many gray areas that one can run into. There are several excision medical billing scenarios that can easily be cleared up with a simple explanation. Simple Excision (with referral)In medical billing, you will learn that many times services are included in the fees of another service. For example, if a general practice physician refers a patient to your surgeon’s office to check a mole, your surgeon might take one look at the mole and immediately remove it in the office. When it comes to the medical billing of this …
Medical Billing Reductions for Home Oxygen
Medical Billing Reductions for Home Oxygen Medical billing reimbursements may change for home oxygen providers. Currently, the HHS Office of Inspector General is circulating a survey about oxygen. Providers should beware of this survey. The HHS Office of Inspector General may use this survey to lower medical billing reimbursement rates. Lower medical billing reimbursement rates would be acceptable if they were correctly granted. However, the survey, and the HHS Office of Inspector General is not taking pertinent information into consideration. The survey fails to cover the services that accompany the oxygen therapy. Services that routinely do not require any documentation with medical billing have especially been forgotten. None the less, …
