Archive for The Day of March 31st, 2006
Archive for the Day of March 31st, 2006
Welcome to the medical billing blog archive for the day of March 31st, 2006.
Here you will find links to every article added to the Outsource Management Group web site during March 31st, 2006.
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How Your Neighbor’s Cost Report Can Cost Your Medical Billing
If you thought your IPPS (inpatient prospective payment system) has nothing to do with medical billing and reimbursement, then think again. Not only will your 2003 IPPS effect your own medical billing, but now your neighbor’s IPPS will effect your 2007 reimbursement as well. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that they will use the 2003 hospital medical billing index data to figure the 2007 payments. That means that if you were not completely accurate with your IPPS, then your reimbursements in 2007 will be skewed. CMS also announced that they will only calculate one wage per state for hospitals outside of the core-based statistical areas. This means …
