Medicare

CMS announced, “Patient’s Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI) May Change” due to a recent breach.

The Medicare Advance Beneficiary Notice (ABN) may carry the tagline Annoying, But Necessary but this does not mean that providers can ignore it or worse, wing it when it comes to implementing it correctly.

We’re excited to invite you to explore our comprehensive library, where we’ve compiled everything you need to know about Medicare, including the upcoming ABN changes.

Maintenance care is a vital component of what sets Chiropractic apart in the healthcare profession. Let’s make sure we are coding and billing it right!

Has Yours Arrived Yet? The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) contracts with Reli, an external contractor, to provide these CBRs for providers of all kinds. They are landing in providers’ offices in February and March this year. So now what?

Hot Topics from the KMC University HelpDesk So many calls to our HelpDesk revolve around questions about these privately managed Medicare plans. Some providers and…

When a doctor does the work of diagnosing, treating, and documenting, there are both risks and rewards. All doctors want to be paid for the clinically reasonable and medically necessary services and procedures rendered to patients, so it is important to understand the contracts that might be required and each company’s definition of medical necessity.

It’s possibly one of the least understood, yet the concepts are clear, based on the definitions provided. Read on for our clarified explanations.

In the snow belt states, the annual migration of the snowbirds heading to warmer locales begins. What are snowbirds? These are people who usually head south for the winter to escape the cold and snow of their home state. There is also a variation of the snowbird called a “snow flake” who are people who spend portions of the winter in the south and head back north at various times.