By Crystal Ewing – By now you’ve probably heard that one of the outcomes of the passage of MACRA is that CMS will be replacing the old Health Insurance Claim Number with a new, randomly generated Medicare Beneficiary Identification (MBI) code.
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By Crystal Ewing – Historically, providers have often treated claim denials the way many of us treat a speeding ticket. We may not be quite sure how much we were actually speeding—we may even disagree that we were speeding at all.
By Crystal Ewing – Billing departments continue to be pressed by daunting challenges as the healthcare industry transforms from a fee-for service to a fee-for-value business model.
By Crystal Ewing – Now that ICD-10 is here, we can finally set aside the lingering debate about whether the change would occur in our lifetimes—or ever. We can begin to see the pay-off of months and years of training and preparation.