It’s Movember – Time to Get Your Mustache On!
Movember is the event that brings awareness to men’s health issues and charities that support them by encouraging men to grow mustaches in the month of November. As something that began in Adelaide, South Australia in 1999, it has now become an international phenomenon. The Movember Foundation has since raised $174-million worldwide.[1] Participants in the 30 day mustache growing challenge …
Medicare Covered Preventable Services can Take a Bite out of Chronic Kidney Disease
2014 marked the first year that all End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) facilities were paid under the End-Stage Renal Disease Prospective Payment System (ESRD PPS). This payment system reflects an attempt by CMS to both improve patient care and control costs. The base payment model combines payments for the composite rate and separately billable renal dialysis items and services. ESRD providers …
Making Heads or Tails out of Medicare/Medicaid Dual Eligibility
As medical billers, we are often faced with trying to explain a patient’s coverage in “layman” terms in order to justify the out of pocket amounts we are attempting to collect. Iridium Suite Practice Management Software has an integrated Real Time Eligibility that easily helps to identify dual eligible beneficiaries. To read more visit our Biller's Blog.
Making Heads or Tails out of Medicare/Medicaid Dual Eligibility
I spent many years as a radiation oncology medical biller in an area with a significant senior population. I would estimate that approximately 70% of our patient demographic was Medicare eligible beneficiaries with about half of those enrolled with the traditional Medicare plan. Most patients were financially able to have supplemental coverage, but we did have those few that were …
ICD-10 is Coming, Like Those Slovenly Zombies, to Eat Your Brains
Okay, that is pretty dramatic, but it is Halloween month after all. The coming of the “real” ICD-10 implementation date (currently October 1, 2015) has been like watching those super slow moving zombies inching towards their victims. To read more visit our Biller's Blog.
