Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced today approximately $101 million in Affordable Care Act funding to 164 new health center sites.
Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced today approximately $101 million in Affordable Care Act funding to 164 new health center sites.
Last week, we brought you a summation of the key provisions in the Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) proposed rule for fiscal year (FY) 2025. Today’s article will focus on the quality programs that concern the inpatient setting. Hospitals that do not submit quality data or do not meet all Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting […]
BY KELLY DENNIS, MBA, ACS-AN, CANPC, CHCA, CPMA, CPC, CPC-I Perfect Office Solutions, Inc., Leesburg, FL Coders often struggle with new or unique scenarios when it comes to reporting labor epidural services. It is important to communicate with your coders and billers to ensure compliant billing. For example, the following questions recently came through my […]
BY MARK F. WEISS, JD The Mark F. Weiss Law Firm, Dallas, TX, Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, CA Staffing pressure, the inability to recruit and retain, is like a virus, infecting medical groups of many sorts and nearly all sizes. Perhaps that’s why the “Somewhere Group,” an amalgam of hospital-based groups with a pretend […]