This week's note from the instructor reviews and offers recommendations on the top three patient status issues causing the most confusion for providers.
Take a look at the appeal process from the perspective of a hospital that submitted a redetermination request after a claim for cataract surgery was reopened.
Although most eligible clinicians who participated in the first reporting year of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System received a positive payment adjustment, even the highest performing clinicians saw only a modest bonus.
Hispanic Americans make up nearly 18% of the total population, and a recent survey report from CMS finds that the diversity of ancestry within that population makes a difference when it comes to health outcomes.
