New rule decreases payment conversion factor; increases telehealth expansion, E/M services
The 2021 Physician Fee Schedule is Finalized – Here are the Highlights
Category: Industry News
Stay current on the latest industry news, best practices, and regulatory changes in revenue cycle management. Gain the knowledge you need to make informed decisions and drive successful outcomes for your healthcare organization.
Developing a Framework for a Common Healthcare Policy to Benefit All Americans
In this podcast, we sat down with Thomas Campanella, Healthcare Executive in Residence at Baldwin Wallace University, to understand how developing a framework to bring together different political perspectives into a common healthcare policy benefits society and all Americans.
New COVID-19 Testing Price Transparency Requirements Effective Immediately
Increasing healthcare price transparency is a strategic objective of CMS, which has finalized rules regulating providers of COVID-19 tests.
Government Takes Action to Ensure Coverage of COVID-19 Vaccine
CMS helping providers and insurers prepare for swift vaccine administration
COVID-19 Testing Payments and Regulations: What Labs Need to Know
Announcements support faster testing and tighter regulations around reporting
Larger Payments for Labs Producing Faster COVID-19 Results
CMS incentivizes labs to complete high throughput COVID-19 tests quicker
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced starting January 1, 2021, Medicare will pay $100 to laboratories that complete high throughput COVID-19 diagnostic tests within two calendar days of the specimen being collected. Also effective January 1, 2021, for laboratories that take longer than two days to complete these tests, Medicare will pay $75.
COVID-19 Test Pricing: Know the Facts, Protect Your Lab’s Reputation
Concerns about test price gouging may lead to greater scrutiny of costs
Automation – The Key to Hospital Transformation
In this webinar, we are joined by Kathy Whitmire, CEO of Transformation Health Partners, to discuss how critical automation is to the revenue cycle for healthcare providers to survive after COVID-19.
Women Among the Hardest Hit Financially by COVID-19 Pandemic
Hospitals, Health Systems and Labs can tailor billing to help ease healthcare burden
UHC Deadline for Lab Test Registry Delayed Indefinitely
College of American Pathologists Presses UHC to Extend Delay
