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Medical Billing Services
Provider Relief Funds – Post-Payment Reporting Requirements
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Health Care Enhancement Act, allocated funds to reimburse eligible healthcare providers for healthcare-related expenses or lost revenues attributable to the coronavirus. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) distributes these funds through the CARES Act…
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Medical Billing Services
Telehealth and Physical Therapy
Rapid Expansion of Telehealth According to the IHS Markit report, the number of patients using telehealth is expected to rise to more than ten million in 2020, up from less than 350,000 in 2013. With such exponential growth, practices providing physical therapy can no longer afford to ignore the opportunity…
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Medical Billing Services
Importance of insurance eligibility verification during COVID-19
Coronavirus or the novel COVID-19 disease has affected millions of people across the world. The communicable disease is caused by a family of viruses that results in acute respiratory illnesses, such as impaired lung and kidney functions, pneumonia, and even multi-organ failure. Across the globe, there has been a closure…
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Medical Billing Services
Estimating and Collecting Patient Responsibility
Estimating and collecting patient responsibility is a challenging task. Not only you must collect money directly from your patients but also you need to ensure patient satisfaction that guarantees repeat visits and positive online reviews. Patients who have an exact idea of how much they owe are more likely to…
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Medical Billing Services
What thanksgiving means for patients and providers?
Thanksgiving is a federal holiday in the United States, celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November celebrating the harvest and other blessings of the past year. The word thanksgiving means giving of thanks to God, especially in a religious ceremony. Thanksgiving is that time of year when you have to…
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Medical Billing Services
ONC’s update on Sync for Science pilot project
Leading healthcare providers and developers across the country joined the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC) Sync for Science (S4S) Pilot Project to support patient-directed sharing of health information with research using a standards-based API. ONC said in a report that 4 healthcare IT developers and…
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General Surgery Billing Services
How does modifier 62 affect reimbursement?
Modifier 62 will be added to claims for procedures designated as “co-surgeon allowed” when a claim for the same procedure code with modifier 62 has been previously submitted and processed for a different provider. Claims for more than one surgeon should have each surgeon’s provider identification number. The following situations…
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