Recently, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and the Medical Association of Georgia (MAG) came out swinging against an insurer, Anthem. The pair of associations filed lawsuit against Anthem for its recently-implemented policy of denying medical...Read More »
Mary Beth Bumbarger, RHIA, CHDA, CCS, will present “Mortality Measures Optimization: Getting to Know the Data,” on Day 2 of the ACDIS conference. Bumbarger is the director of the health information and quality management at the Brundage Group. ...Read More »
CMS had a 71.3% improper payment rate for surgical dressings in 2017, accounting for 0.3% or $126 million of the overall Medicare FFS improper payment rate that year, according a CERT report in...Read More »
Last week, CMS proposed major changes to the FY 2019 Physician Fee Schedule and the Quality Payment Program, some of which could change the E/M documentation requirements.Read More »
In 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM), a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization, reported in “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System,” that medical errors represent one of the leading causes of mortality in the United...Read More »
