Recovery Audit Contractors (RAC) audits, as physicians know, are part of the government’s program to reduce fraud, waste, and errors in medical billing practices, especially Medicare and Medicaid. Improper payments include incorrect payment amounts, miscoding,...
To ensure accurate medical billing in the coming year, physician practices should review the 2015 OIG Work Plan for both new and continuing topics that may involve the services they are providing. This annual publication describes the review activities of the OIG...
Providers can use the new HCPCS code – S8032 recently released by CMS for medical billing purposes when reporting low-dose CT for lung cancer screening. Lung cancer is considered the second most common cancer in the United States affecting both men and women....
The medical coding for otitis externa or “swimmer’s ear” is quite different in ICD-10 compared to that in ICD-9. In the new coding system, ears get their own chapter while earlier they were included along with the eyes. There are several additional...
The first report of The Institute of Medicine (IOM), the famous ‘To Err is Human’ published in 1999 revealed that around 7000 deaths occur annually from medication errors alone. In 2006, another report from the IOM pointed out that the extra medical costs...
