The interest period begins on the day after payment is due and ends on the day of payment. The new rate of 4.625% is in effect January through July 2025.
Medicare covers behavioral, mental and psychiatric health services that may improve outcomes for Medicare patients. For more information, please view this article and share these valuable resources and references with your patients.
Medicare pays for cardiac rehabilitation (CR), intensive cardiac rehabilitation (ICR), and pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) programs if specific criteria are met. This criterion includes coverage provisions for CR, ICR, and PR items and servic…
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and other federal agencies have emphasized the importance of voluntarily developed and implemented compliance plans. The OIG has supplied guidance as to the elements of a model compliance plan.
Some clinical laboratories in our jurisdiction are charging patients prior to performing services, a potential assignment violation. This article outlines Medicare regulations and potential penalties applicable to laboratories.
If you’re a new or seasoned provider billing dental services to fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare, or original Medicare, this article guides you through recently clarified payment provisions for dental services in 2023, the provider enrollment…
When a patient enrolls in or disenrolls from a Medicare Advantage plan during his/her inpatient stay, the following factors will determine whether to bill the Medicare Advantage plan and/or original Medicare.
The January Integrated Outpatient Code Editor (IOCE) expands editing related to manifestation diagnosis codes. Read this article to find out more about the editing.