As experts in Emergency Medicine, you’re ready to spring into action at a moment’s notice. But are you ready to prepare and respond fully to compliance issues, and all the complexities of hospital based Emergency Medicine medical coding, billing and collections?
You already know that having a compliance plan is of the utmost importance to the integrity and profitability of your Emergency Medicine practice. OIG recently released its 2013 work plan to help you identify areas of risk and key areas to avoid unintentional fraud, waste and abuse.
To help you understand some of the changes on the horizon, the following lists some of the OIG regulations for 2013:
- Laboratory Tests—Billing Characteristics and Questionable Billing in 2010
- Laboratory Tests—Part B Payments for Glycated Hemoglobin A1C Tests
- Physicians and Other Suppliers—Noncompliance With Assignment Rules and Excessive Billing of Beneficiaries
- Physicians—Error Rate for Incident-To Services Performed by Non-physicians
- Physicians—Place-of-Service Coding Errors
- Claims Processing Errors—Medicare Payments for Part B Claims With G Modifiers (New)
- Physicians—Error Rate for Incident-To Services Performed by Non-physicians
- Evaluation and Management Services—Potentially Inappropriate Payments in 2010
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revMD’s industry leading expertise ensures that hospital based Emergency Medicine practices implement the new OIG 2013 work plan and strictly adhere to its myriad of intricacies. Formerly known as Asterino & Associates, revMD is the results-proven alternative for Emergency Medicine revenue cycle management based just east of Phoenix, Arizona. They specialize in compliance for Emergency Medicine practices and maintain tight adherence to OIG regulations.
With a team of experts who remain ahead of the curve in new industry compliance regulations, revMD ensures that medical coding, billing and collections processes will reduce denied claims while maintaining optimal compliance, and yield the highest revenue reimbursement for Emergency Medicine practices. This eliminates the headache that occurs when juggling all the changes along with their delivery of patient care.
Any more, it takes an industry insider with the experience that only builds when your services have responded to the specific needs of Emergency Medicine practices for more than 25 years.
For further OIG Work Plan details: Download a PDF of the 2013 OIG Work Plan.