Medical Billing Blog

CMS Bundled Payment Programs: Delayed

Posted by Scott Shatzman on Tue, Mar, 21, 2017 @ 07:03 AM
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HHS Secretary: Medicare Balance Billing + MACRA

Posted by Scott Shatzman on Thu, Mar, 16, 2017 @ 09:03 AM
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CMS: Campaign to Promote Coordinated Care Program

Posted by Scott Shatzman on Wed, Mar, 15, 2017 @ 14:03 PM
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Federal Courts Block Mega Insurance Mergers

Posted by Scott Shatzman on Tue, Mar, 14, 2017 @ 09:03 AM

Federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has blocked the proposed landmark merger of insurance giants Anthem and Cigna.

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Organizations Request Meaningful Use, MIPS Delay

Posted by Scott Shatzman on Mon, Mar, 13, 2017 @ 09:03 AM
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5 Tips to Prepare for MIPS

Posted by Scott Shatzman on Thu, Mar, 09, 2017 @ 08:03 AM
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CMS Offers Insights on MIPS, MACRA and APMs

Posted by Scott Shatzman on Wed, Feb, 22, 2017 @ 09:02 AM

A large crowd filled a ballroom at the HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition on Monday to hear from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on how to handle payment reform under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act and the law's mandate to rid Medicare cards of Social Security numbers.

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High-Deductible Plans: A Physician's Experience

Posted by Scott Shatzman on Wed, Feb, 08, 2017 @ 08:02 AM

All the doctor’s tricks were failing him. He’d tried neck massage, pressure to the eyes, ice on the face. But an hour in, Ashish Jha still couldn’t slow his racing heart.

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Health Savings Accounts (HSAs): Explained

Posted by Scott Shatzman on Mon, Feb, 06, 2017 @ 06:02 AM

They are just three little words — “health savings accounts” — but they are generating a lot of buzz as Republicans contemplate plans to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

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Healthcare Industry Celebrates Trump's Executive Order

Posted by Scott Shatzman on Wed, Feb, 01, 2017 @ 07:02 AM

Healthcare industry stakeholders are lauding President Donald Trump's latest executive order, which requires executive departments or agencies to remove at least two previously implemented regulations for every new one issued.

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