E/M Services Denial Reasons As per the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) data, approximately 15 percent of evaluation and management (E/M) services are improperly paid and accounted for almost 9.3 percent of the overall Medicare fee-for-service improper payment. Some of the common denial reasons are ‘similar services from multiple providers in the same […]
Increasing Claim Denials Recently Kaiser Family Foundation published an analysis on claim denials for various marketplace payers for the year 2020. Under the Affordable Care Act, marketplace payers need to report claims denial data and this analysis used the same data to understand claim denial status. The analysis found that, overall, nearly one out of […]
Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) is a health care delivery method that benefits patients, providers, caregivers, and the healthcare system as a whole, by leveraging technology advances to gather patient data, outside of traditional health care delivery settings. From increasing access to virtual care, increased patient-provider communication opportunities, and improved patient involvement in self-management to reducing […]
Claim denial occurs when a claim is submitted by the healthcare provider and is not accepted by the payer. Most practices face the challenge of high claim denials. You would be surprised to know that the highest performing medical practices have only a 4 percent denial rate (as per the Medical Group Management Association survey […]
In a perfect world, all submitted claims would be processed correctly the first time. In the world of medical billing, however, we know this is not always the case. Even after cautiously submitting a claim it may get denied. Handling claim denials can be a frustrating, time-consuming, and complicated process. Knowing some basic strategies for […]
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) defines coordination of benefits (COB), as the process which allows plans that provide health and/or prescription coverage for a person with Medicare to determine their respective payment responsibilities. In simpler words, COB determines which insurance carrier is primary, secondary, and so forth. This coordination between insurance carriers exists […]
If your Medicaid crossover claims are rejecting it may be due to the address you have on file with Medicare and Medicaid. When Medicare crosses over your claim to Medicaid, address fields like Master address and Pay-to (or remit address) are submitted. If Medicaid does not have the same addresses in their file, Medicaid will […]
The recent COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated claim denials from payers. According to a recent analysis, the average rate of claim denial is increasing by 23 percent in 2020 compared to four years ago. Faults related to missing or invalid claim data, which included unspecified billing issues, missing or invalid explanation of benefits, and service not […]
You might have received a denial with claim adjustment reason code (CARC) CO B9. Possible reasons for this denial message could be: The patient is enrolled in Hospice on the date of service Medicare Part B only pays for physician services not related to Hospice condition and not paid under arrangement with Hospice entity Patient’s […]
These coding guidelines for outpatient diagnoses have been approved for use by hospitals/ providers in coding and reporting hospital-based Outpatient Services and provider-based office visits. The terms encounter and visit are often used interchangeably in describing Outpatient Services contacts and, therefore, appear together in these guidelines without distinguishing one from the other. Though the conventions […]