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Medicare and the CMS-1500 form |
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Posted by: Lucy on 07/05/2007 01:30 AM
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| Deadline for CMS-1500 usage is July 1, 2007 |
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UHC - modifier 50 |
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Posted by: Lucy on 07/05/2007 01:41 AM
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| United Health Care requires the usage of modifier 50 in lieu of modifier RT or LT for podiatry billing. |
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NEW Medicare/Caid Tool Kit |
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Posted by: Lucy on 06/21/2007 11:17 PM
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is offering a Tool
Kit for the 2007 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) that is
designed to assist eligible professionals— DPMs are eligible—with
successful reporting. The Tool Kit consists of some existing
educational resources plus new measure-specific worksheets to walk the
user step-by-step through reporting for each measure. |
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Regence NPI deadline extended |
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Posted by: Lucy on 05/07/2007 11:52 PM
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| NEW DEADLINE WILL BE EXTENDED FOR THE NEXT FEW MONTHS. NO SPECIFIC DATE GIVEN. |
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Regence Clinician Guidelines |
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Posted by: Lucy on 05/07/2007 11:54 PM
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| A new behavior health Clinician Practice Guideline has been added and can be found in the Utilizaton Management section of Provider Web Site at www.id.regence.com/physician |
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KPS Chart Note Requirements for Rehab Therapy |
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Posted by: Lucy on 05/03/2007 12:30 AM
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| KPS has implemented changes in outpatient physical, speech, occupational, and massage therapy charting. KPS not allow any time based therapy codes which do not have the beginning and ending times recorded in the patient's medical record. This can be documented in two manners 1) Start time - end time of each code 2) length of the treatment to the minute could be recorded instead. |
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Molina Therapy Cap |
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Posted by: Lucy on 05/03/2007 12:34 AM
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| Molina Healthcare has limited procedure codes from 97001-97542 to 24 visits maximum without pre-authorization. Basic Health is an exemption with pre-authorization required and limited to 12 visits per calendar year |
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Medicare NPI Extension |
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Posted by: Lucy on 04/25/2007 11:11 PM
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is initiating a contingency plan that extends the compliance date for the National Provider Identifier (NPI) from May 23, 2007 to May 23, 2008.
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Chiropractors in Iowa being limited by Medicare |
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Posted by: Lucy on 04/25/2007 11:33 PM
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| DC's in Iowa no longer recognized as referring or ordering provider for Medicare. |
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