New study analyzes reimbursement trends for minimally invasive arthroscopic surgery, one of the fastest-growing areas of orthopedics “A Comprehensive Analysis of Medicare Reimbursement to Physicians for Common Arthroscopy Procedures: Adjusted Reimbursement has Fallen Nearly 30% from 2000 to 2019,” printed in the December issue…
New HHS rule changes remove restrictions HHS has announced changes to its rules around how providers who received relief funds need to calculate how much of that money they can keep. The latest shift, announced Oct. 22, moves away from restrictions that forced providers…
How To Fix the Doctor/Patient Relationship Alejandro Badia, MD, is the owner and operator of Badia Hand to Shoulder Center in Doral, FL, located near Miami. He’s spent 30 years ‘in the trenches’ of the U.S healthcare system, from his undergraduate work at Cornell…
Estimates say 47,000 professionals communicate directly with lawmakers Capitol Hill lawmakers received a direct response to a proposed 9% cut to Medicare payment in the form of over 47,000 members of the physical therapy profession. The latest advocacy infusion came by way of APTA’s…
An Advance Beneficiary Notice of Noncoverage, or ABN, is a liability waiver form that is given when a healthcare provider or medical supply company thinks or knows Medicare will not cover something. Not every ABN is the same, some are skilled nursing facilities ABNs…
Healthcare M&A: Private equity firms, physician practices or healthcare organizations considering acquiring a healthcare practice should pay attention to several areas that may require due diligence efforts. Consolidation remains one of the strongest trends in the healthcare provider industry, driven by an abundance of…
What measures and means will be taken in the meantime? To the average person, Medicare is simply health insurance for people of retirement age. And while that description is incomplete, it isn’t wrong either. But where the understanding of the program begins to erode…