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How to bill for a house call visit

Mobius MD

Here’s a quick overview of tips and CPT codes for the next time you bill for a house call visit. Consider this when you bill for a house call Medicare reimburses providers for home visits only if they are medically necessary. CPT Home Services Codes Physicians use a limited set of CPT codes to bill for house calls.

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A Health Consumer Bill of Rights: Assuring Affordability, Access, Autonomy, and Equity

Health Populi

NABIP, whose members represent professionals in the health insurance benefits industry, drafted and adopted a new American Healthcare Consumer Bill of Rights launched at the meeting. There have been many versions of so-called “patient’s bills of rights” over the years.

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3 best practices to master medical billing for Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care 

Health Prime

As we enter Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month 2024 , it’s imperative to underscore the importance of effective medical billing practices in providing quality care for individuals affected by Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. In 2023, Alzheimer’s and other dementias cost the nation $345 billion.

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Michigan House Passes Bill Requiring Medical Records to be Stored Domestically

The HIPAA Journal

The Michigan House of Representatives has passed a bill ( HB 4242 ) that seeks to protect the sensitive health data of state residents from foreign entities of concern by requiring electronic medical records to be stored in the United States or Canada. The bill was introduced by Rep. The bills will now be considered by the Senate.

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Colby Takeda, Pear Suite

The Healthcare Blog

Increasingly states Medicaid and health plans are paying directly to community organizations and Pear Suite is building the capacity for those organizations to contract and bill the plans and states. Pear Suite has been doing this since 2023 and has over 100 clients already, and has even built its own network of community health workers.

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Cyberattack Forces North Carolina Radiology Practice to Close for More Than a Month

The HIPAA Journal

The compromised email account was reviewed and found to contain patients full names, addresses, dates of birth, medical and treatment information, dates of service, provider and facility names, procedure codes, billing and claims information, patient account identifiers, and payor information.

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The 2023 Health Economy – The Evolving Primary Care and Retail Health Convergence Through Trilliant Health’s Lens

Health Populi

health care’s negative-sum game, stakeholders who survive and win that game will have to deliver value-for-money, we learn from Trilliant Health’s 2023 Trends Shaping the Health Economy Report. adults saying inflation has made it harder to pay medical bills.

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