CMS Releases Medicare Physician Payment Data Last night, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) publicly released Medicare physician payment data, which identifies 38 of the top-paid doctors practice in California. April 9, 2014 AMA, Medicare AMA, CMS, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, Medicare, Medicare Physician Payment Data 0 0 Comment Read More »
CMS To Publicly Release Medicare Physician Payment Data On April 2, 2014, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it will release Medicare physician payment data to the public for the first time. April 3, 2014 AMA, Medicare, News AMA, Medicare, CMS, Medicare physician payment data 0 0 Comment Read More »
AMA: ICD-10 Implementation To Be Significantly More Costly New estimates of costs to implement the federally mandated ICD-10 code set by October could be up to three times more than previously estimated, according to an updated cost study published by the American Medical Association. February 12, 2014 Advocacy, AMA, Practice Management ICD-10, AMA 0 0 Comment Read More »
HOD Urges the AMA to Press on for SGR Repeal Following robust discussion last week in various caucuses, open forums, and in Reference Committee, the AMA House of Delegates passed an amended version of Resolution 226 regarding repeal of Medicare’s sustainable growth rate (SGR) physician payment update formula. November 25, 2013 AMA Resolution 226, AMA 0 0 Comment Read More »
New Standards Coming January 2014 Can Help Physicians Streamline Payment Effective January 1, 2014, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will require health insurers to standardize business practices for electronic funds transfers (EFT) and electronic remittance advice (ERA); this new criterion will save physician practices time and money by allowing them to automate the tedious process of matching submitted medical claims with payments from insurers. November 7, 2013 AMA, Physician Resource AMA, EFT, ERA, ACA, Affordable Care Act, American Medical Association, Toolkits 0 0 Comment Read More »
