Last month, Terri Harris and I broke down The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS’s) required off-cycle revalidation of all Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) in an Alert and related
Continue Reading SNFs Receive Additional Time to Complete Off-Cycle RevalidationAs many people are discussing methods to improve healthcare, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is giving stakeholders an opportunity to send in their thoughts on this topic.
Continue Reading CMS Requests “National Conversation” About Improving Medicare
The Medicare incentive programs with which you and your medical practice are familiar will soon be no more. As of January 1, 2017, these programs (including the Electronic Health Records
Continue Reading Are You Ready for the New Medicare Quality Payment Program? (Part 2): Basics of the MIPS and How to Qualify in 2017
The long-anticipated implementation of ICD-10 coding finally began this past Thursday, October 1, 2015. As of that date, government and commercial payors ceased to accept claims under the old coding
Continue Reading The Switch to ICD-10
Adding an interesting wrinkle to an already complex environment, the Federal Trade Commission filed a suit this month to block an Idaho hospital from acquiring a physician practice. According to
Continue Reading FTC Sues to Block Hospital Acquisition of Medical Practice
I imagine that few physicians contemplated being part of organized labor when they enrolled in medical school but as more and more physicians make the leap from private practice to
Continue Reading Physician Unions – An Unintended Consequence of Health Reform?
Concierge medical practice
Continue Reading Can Concierge Medicine be Affordable for the Masses?
With the emphasis placed on primary care under the federal Affordable Care Act, what will the federal government need to do to entice the best and the brightest to go into primary care?
Continue Reading Does It Make Financial Sense To Go Into Medicine?
It is apparent from recent enforcement activity that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is keeping a wary eye on physician/hospital integration.
Continue Reading FTC Takes Interest in Hospital/Physician Integration
As the debate regarding healthcare reform rages on, perhaps too often the blame for rising health care costs is pointed at physicians, and as a result, physician reimbursement has historically
Continue Reading The Next Health Care Crisis: Not Enough Physicians