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Negotiating Your Reimbursement Rates during this Phase of Payer
Consolidation & Health Insurer Monopoly Power
Physicians’ choice of health plans and contracts...
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End to End Medical Billing Solutions http://www. medicalbillersandcoders. com www. medicalbillersandcoders. com Copyright ©-2013 M. D. C. P. All Rights Reserved. Page 1 of 1 Negotiating Your Reimbursement Rates during this Phase of Payer Consolidation & Health Insurer Monopoly Power Physicians’ choice of health plans and contracts seem to be getting fewer and fewer with each passing moment as U. S. health insurance sector, particularly the private sector, witnesses unprecedented payer consolidation, acquisitions, and mergers amongst private health insurance carriers. Besides contradicting the hope that such consolidation, acquisitions, and mergers would bring down the cost premiums for patients, it has virtually helped a few players to wield monopoly over the entire commercial health insurance landscape. The situation has grown so unchecked 70 percent of 385 metropolitan areas in the U. S. do not have competitive conditions, and as much as 40 percent of these areas have a single
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This year’s CPT Manual has spelt out extensive coding changes and revisions to orthopedic surgical codes. In all, there are 500 code changes to the Category I codes, including 251 revisions, 151 new codes and 100 deletions. Moreover, there has been significant overhauling of nerve conduction studies, some...
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This year’s CPT Manual has spelt out extensive coding changes and revisions to orthopedic surgical codes. In all, there are 500 code changes to the Category I codes, including 251 revisions, 151 new codes and 100 deletions. Moreover, there has been significant overhauling of nerve conduction studies, some revisions to the radiology section, and E/M changes.
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Till recently, cardiologists who were happy with their private practices have suddenly started exploring avenues to align themselves with hospitals. The change has been so dramatic that already around 15 percent of cardiologists across the U.S. have left their private practices in search of more secure positions in large...
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Till recently, cardiologists who were happy with their private practices have suddenly started exploring avenues to align themselves with hospitals. The change has been so dramatic that already around 15 percent of cardiologists across the U.S. have left their private practices in search of more secure positions in large clinics and hospitals.
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Stage 2 meaningful use guidelines are finally out, and radiologists may heave a sigh of relief since most of the ambiguity that existed in Stage 1 about their eligibility and the ways to approach the qualification criterion seem to have been made amply clear by CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC).
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Contrary to the notion that government’s move to digitize healthcare information would enable healthcare providers, doctors, and insurance companies comply more aptly with HIPAA’s guidelines for patients’ privacy and security, there has been an upsurge in HIPAA breaches with providers being reported for...
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Contrary to the notion that government’s move to digitize healthcare information would enable healthcare providers, doctors, and insurance companies comply more aptly with HIPAA’s guidelines for patients’ privacy and security, there has been an upsurge in HIPAA breaches with providers being reported for breaches of some kind or the other.
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In 2010, Medicare improper payment amounted to $47.9 billion. Human and Health Services, in 2011, recovered $4.1 billion paid through reimbursements as a result of ‘fraudulent’ or ‘improper’ claims. You may be right if you think you won’t ever be among the fraudulent care practitioners who contributed to these figures because...
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In 2010, Medicare improper payment amounted to $47.9 billion. Human and Health Services, in 2011, recovered $4.1 billion paid through reimbursements as a result of ‘fraudulent’ or ‘improper’ claims. You may be right if you think you won’t ever be among the fraudulent care practitioners who contributed to these figures because you are scrupulous.
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The year 2013 is going to be quite significant to the U.S. health care industry in general and doctors in particular – it is the year when a host of health care reforms will be set in motion, and many clinical and operational experiments will get crystallized into norms to be complied with by the physician community.
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Physicians, who are generally known for highest professional integrity, often have to live with the tag of ‘malpractice’ despite clinical errors being unintentional. While patients’ have every right to get indemnified for the grievance, physicians’ sole choice of protection against monetary liability.
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Thoracic surgical specialty is one of those priority specialties that have always been in high demand across the 50 states in the U.S., and the forecast is for an increased incidence of thoracic surgical cases. While practitioners in thoracic surgical specialty may continue to be optimistic about their future practice,...
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Thoracic surgical specialty is one of those priority specialties that have always been in high demand across the 50 states in the U.S., and the forecast is for an increased incidence of thoracic surgical cases. While practitioners in thoracic surgical specialty may continue to be optimistic about their future practice, constant clinical innovations and complexity of the procedures would still have to be taken care of.
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Thoracic surgical specialty is one of those priority specialties that have always been in high demand across the 50 states in the U.S., and the forecast is for an increased incidence of thoracic surgical cases. While practitioners in thoracic surgical specialty may continue to be optimistic about their future practice,...
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Thoracic surgical specialty is one of those priority specialties that have always been in high demand across the 50 states in the U.S., and the forecast is for an increased incidence of thoracic surgical cases. While practitioners in thoracic surgical specialty may continue to be optimistic about their future practice, constant clinical innovations and complexity of the procedures would still have to be taken care of.
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