News & Analysis

March 1, 2013
Strategies for Healthcare Compliance

A former clinical director for Biscayne Milieu, a Miami-based mental health clinic, was sentenced to 100 months in prison for his participation in a Medicare fraud scheme involving the submission of more than $50 million in fraudulent billings to Medicare, announced the Assistant Attorney General, the U.S. Attorney of the Southern District of Florida, the FBI Miami Field Office, and the HHS-OIG Office of Investigations Miami Office in a press release.

March 1, 2013
Briefings on APCs

Our coding experts answer your questions about physician supervision for chemotherapy, billing injectable drugs, Addendum B and coverage, new transitional care management codes, and stent placement with other procedures.

March 1, 2013
Briefings on APCs

When coders hear the words "interventional radiology," many think of vascular procedures. However, interventional radiology encompasses additional, nonvascular procedures, such as nephrostomy tube placement and drainage of abscesses.

March 1, 2013
Briefings on APCs

CMS added 410 new codes and seven new therapy and patient condition modifiers to the I/OCE as part of the January 2013 update.

February 1, 2013
Briefings on HIPAA

How one healthcare organization survived a major data breach and OCR enforcement ­action

February 1, 2013
HIM Briefings

When HIM professionals at Driscoll Children's Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas, looked into its success rate for physician response to coding queries, it knew it needed to do a better job.

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