Health care fraud remains a major target as the Obama administration aims to bring fraudsters to justice, especially since the Affordable Care Act went into effect this year. It’s easy ...
Much has been made of the kind of impact that the new health care laws have had on doctors and medical care providers. However, one potential provision of those laws ...
In an effort to ease some of the medical profession’s trepidation concerning the Affordable Care Act (ACA), many proponents have pointed out that it is likely to bring a new ...
A number of small medical practices facing increased financial pressure and competition from urgent care clinics and other large providers have taken unconventional steps to increase revenues and get the ...
Most people believe that the complexity and specialized knowledge involved in any given profession makes others in that profession better equipped to regulate their own members than any outside concern. ...
A great deal of focus has been placed on statistics and trends during the six-month open enrollment period for Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchange policies and Medicaid expansion. During that ...
No medical office looks forward to an audit by the Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Even practitioners who are supremely confident in both their compliance and the quality ...
Especially in the new landscape of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), many doctors are exploring ways to cut costs and increase efficiency. Merging with an existing medical practice allows doctors ...
Doctors are in the business of constantly considering whether the benefits of a certain treatment or medication outweigh its side effects, health risks and costs. In order to run a ...
For the first time, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have released data on Medicare fees paid to health care providers. The new policy is intended to increase ...
Technology provides undeniable benefits to medical recordkeeping. A computerized system allows medical care providers to store and share crucial patient information more cost-effectively and efficiently than the outmoded paper file ...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 is ushering in major changes to the health care sector in 2014, when most of its provisions will come into effect. There are ...
According to the American Medical Association, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has developed several quality initiatives that provide information on the quality of health care across a ...
For years, getting paid by Medicare and Medicaid wasn’t very complicated. After health care providers performed a service, they billed for it and got paid. But now that “fee for ...
The Stark Law is a federal health care statute that limits physician referrals. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has made some important changes to the Stark Law that medical providers ...
