- SAVING With Medicare's Prescription: Drug Benefits
Vera Moulton takes a lot of prescription medicine, and says, "Two or three are on the expensive side." That's why the retired bookkeeper and 33-year-member ......
- Dealing with Payroll Taxes in Quicken 2005
Make no mistake. Uncle Sam wants the money you withhold from an employee's payroll check for federal income taxes, Social Security, and Medicare. Uncle Sam ......
- New Immigration Regulation Will Hurt Small Businesses
The government is attempting to enlist small businesses in its latest effort to crack down on illegal workers, threatening increased prosecution and stiff fines for ......
- Physician payment rates increase while drug payments
fall.
On January 1, 2004, Medicare payments to physicians increased by 1.5 percent. CMS announced the payment increase in a final rule released December 31, 2003, ......
- Criteria for Provider-Based Status Should Be
Examined.
The provider-based designation was created to help ensure that beneficiaries received services in the most appropriate setting. An off-site facility's provider-based status permitted the main ......
- The Stark II.
The comment period for the final rule known as the Stark II rule has been extended to June 4, 2001. The Stark II rule prohibits ......
- Duplicate orders.
Q Do you know if there is a publication that lists the time frame for a test to be considered an unnecessary duplicate order? In ......
- Duplicate orders.
Q Do you know if there is a publication that lists the time frame for a test to be considered an unnecessary duplicate order? In ......
- HCFA issues final three-day payment window
rule.
HCFA published the final regulations regarding payment for preadmission services under the Medicare program in the February 11, 1998, Federal Register. These long-awaited regulations, commonly ......
- CMS establishes new audit requirements, proposes new
overpayment rule.
Two recent publications of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) seem to belie the view that providers can expect to see an easing ......
- Psych PPS implementing instructions
issued.
On December 1, fiscal intermediaries received payment processing instructions for implementation of the Medicare inpatient psychiatric facility PPS, which goes into effect with cost reporting ......
- Home Health Agencies Should Prepare for Prospective
Payment.
HCFA's recently released proposal for a prospective payment system (PPS) for home health services [a] is another step toward fulfillment of the 1997 Balanced Budget ......
- Allocating practice expense under the Medicare fee
schedule.
INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND Many believe that the physician fees that evolved under the customary, prevailing, and reasonable (CPR) payment methodology were distorted by insurance coverage ......
- OIG unveils compliance guidelines for ambulance
providers. (Policy Watch).
The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) published compliance program guidance for ambulance providers in the March 24, 2003, Federal Register. The rule provides guidelines ......
- It's Here: 2007 Medicare cut has some hope
Starting next year, the Medicare program will pay physicians more for the time they spend talking with Medicare beneficiaries about their health care and will ......