Local groups estimate nearly 2,000 Iowa refugees are affected by the Oct. 1 Medicaid cutoff. Where Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, and Sioux City families can find care. Tipsy Fruit Bats Flew Slower in a ...
Local groups estimate nearly 2,000 Iowa refugees are affected by the Oct. 1 Medicaid cutoff. Where Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, and Sioux City families can find care. Tipsy Fruit Bats Flew Slower in a ...
UnitedHealthcare and TeamHealth have settled a lawsuit in which the insurer accused the physician staffing company of upcoding emergency department claims. The lawsuit was voluntarily dismissed with ...
As a doctor, when I am deciding the best course of treatment, it is not just a patient’s symptoms that I consider. Lab results, medication interaction risks and medical history are all factors that go ...
BCBSIL began applying an enhanced claims-review process July 1 to certain office, inpatient and outpatient E/M services, allowing the insurer to reimburse claims at a lower level when it determines ...
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Psychiatric and addiction treatment providers in Montana are fighting to restore reimbursement for services they say have been downcoded by their state’s Blue Cross Blue Shield plan. Starting July 1, ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and private payers are on a hunt to retrieve potential overpayments to physicians, and their new focus has put many doctors on edge. CMS has pledged ...
A single word — downcoding — has quietly upended how doctors and therapists across Chicago get paid. And for patients like Rachel, learning that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois was quietly cutting ...
The day a Chicago woman named Rachel learned Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois was "downcoding" her longtime psychiatrist’s claims and cutting his pay, she immediately got to work.She reached out to ...
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois has been paying some therapists, pediatricians and other clinicians less money for the same services they've always billed, after quietly changing how it evaluates ...
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