Articles Tagged With: claims
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Final Stark rule still leaves uncertainty
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued the final rule on the Stark law regarding kickbacks. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services clarified some points, but left questions unanswered.
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PIAA: Most commonly missed or delayed diagnosis: breast cancer
Details of 2014 study from PIAA in Rockville, MD, on diagnostic errors and claims.
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Team up with providers on pre-cert requirements that are ‘much more aggressive’ — It’s a necessity!
Patient access staffs are challenged to work much more closely with providers’ offices to provide payers with required clinical information and to avoid denied claims. -
Write-offs due to patient access mistakes cut in half — More than $100,000 saved
Write-offs resulting from errors made by patient access were cut in half at Saint Louis (MO) University Hospital. -
Workers’ comp claims expected to decrease in 2015
There’s good news if the cost of workers’ comp claims has been a problem at your hospital. The latest outlook calls for claims to decrease this year, which continues a trend over the past decade.