After a significant delay and much back and forth between health care provider advocates and Congress, the 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule was released Dec. 2.
As providers see their revenue dropping and watching their practices fail, many are looking at their revenue cycle and wondering what to do.
A pair of Final Rules issued recently by CMS and the OIG establishes new safe harbors aimed to promote value-based care, while also modifying some of the existing safe harbors.
The American Medical Association has published a host of new codes to cover the yet-to-be-released COVID-19 vaccine.
In his latest video, Vachette and Stark CEO Mick Raich reviews a recent letter from the AHA to Congress highlighting the issues with payers reporting record profits when our health system is fighting a pandemic.
The health system shut downs that took place in April and May (and in some instances stretched further) are still having downstream effects on revenue cycle operations for many of our clients.
Hospitals and healthcare providers soon won't be the only ones working to comply with new price transparency requirements after CMS issued a final rule requiring private payers to publicly disclose their negotiated rates beginning in 2023.
The American Hospital Association recently penned a letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee in an effort to highlight some of the many challenges hospitals and health systems are encountering as they continue to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic, all…
CMS unveiled its analysis of 2019 QPP participation, again revealing another year of strong buy-in from clinicians that resulted in miniscule bonuses.
On Oct. 1, Molina Healthcare released its fourth quarter code matrix for Medicaid services that require prior authorization.
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