The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) voted unanimously in a public meeting on January 13-14 to recommend the current Medicare physician fee schedule remain the same for 2023. The decision was met with backlash from the...Read More »
It was a cold January day in 1961, 61 years ago next week. The words “ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for country,” uttered over the inauguration podium, resonating across the airwaves. Now, repeated a thousand times, and a...Read More »
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently conducted an audit of Healthfirst Health Plan, Inc., focused on seven groups of high-risk diagnosis codes to determine whether the organization complied with federal...Read More »
A recent analysis by Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker found that hospital-set prices for COVID-19 tests ranged greatly from as low at $20 to as high as $ 1,419. While the...Read More »
Time is running out to submit a poster proposal for the 2024 ACDIS national conference! If you’re looking for ways to share your amazing team’s success with the national CDI community, you have until December 31, 2023, to submit an...Read More »
A decline of physician services in early 2020 due to COVID-19 is responsible to a drop of $13.9 billion in Medicare spending, equaling a 14% in Medicare claims, according to a report published by the...Read More »
