Tag: Medicare
Navigating the complexities of health coverage and rei...
Product featured in this article: Coverage Discovery As of the end of March 2021, more than 53 million Americans have been fully vaccinated, allowing...
Finding unidentified coverage without a Social Securit...
Finding previously unidentified insurance coverage can feel a little like a game of hide and seek. Patients may not always be aware of their...
Medicare MBI: COVID-19 and Medicare claims...
At the beginning of the year, the healthcare industry moved away from Medicare identifiers based on Social Security Numbers (SSNs), in favor of more...
How long will providers be able to tap into CARES unin...
There is no doubt the healthcare industry has taken a financial beating as a result of COVID-19. But there is a glimmer of hope...
Efficient patient registration is important during flu...
This time last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and hospitals across the country weren’t quite ready for the flu season, which...
Search for Excluded Persons...
To avoid Civil Monetary Penalty (CMP) liability, health care entities need to routinely check the LEIE to ensure that new hires and current employees...
National Health Care Fraud Takedown Results in Charges...
Most Defendants Charged and Largest Alleged Loss Amount in Strike Force History 6/22/16 Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch and Department of Health and Human...
DHHS’ OIG Mid-Year Work Plan...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently released an updated Mid-Year Work Plan for fiscal year...
Review of Current Medicare Administrative Contractors...
Since Medicare’s inception in 1966, private health care insurers have processed medical claims for Medicare beneficiaries. Originally these entities were known as Part A...