Background – HIPAA and Standard Code Sets The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) includes administrative simplification requirements which define standards for certain electronic
Impact of the Modifier 25 Policy Change In October, Anthem announced that evaluation and management (E/M) services, historically eligible for separate reimbursement when reported by
I’m often asked to name the biggest obstacle to the modern practice of medicine. The answer is very simple: administrative burdens. There’s probably not a
November 2, 2017 On the heels of the Franklin Circuit Court’s decision in the medical review panel case, the Kentucky Supreme Court issued an opinion
Rep. Kim Moser is known as and calls herself a “friend of medicine.” However, one could say that she and medicine are more than just
October 31, 2017 On Oct. 30, Franklin Circuit Court Judge Phillip Shepherd issued an opinion declaring Kentucky’s medical review panel law unconstitutional. The Kentucky Medical
Physicians must take action now to avoid the 4 percent payment reduction under the Medicare Quality Payment Program, which includes the Merit Based Incentive Payment
Today I’d like to go over some of the resolutions passed during the House of Delegates at the KMA Annual Meeting. I chose these to
Medicare provides insurance for nearly 58 million aged and disabled people in the United States, and Kentucky has more than 800,000 Medicare beneficiaries. Beginning in
I am writing this column while sitting in the ER at the University of Kentucky Medical Center. My wife had a syncopal episode resulting in
