Only one provider will be reimbursed when multiple providers bill identical services. ConnectiCare will reimburse the provider or entity that actually performed the test. Duplicate laboratory services are defined as identical or equivalent bundled laboratory codes. Note: For the purpose of this policy,...
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bClinicians could have been excluded for more than 1 reason. Excluded clinicians did not have records in the following databases: (1) 2019 National Plan and Provider Enumeration System; (2) 2017 Medicare physician and other supplier reports; (3) 2015 geocoded US Census block group data; (4)...
Well, one thing I’d say though is that when you look at when a provider is being challenged on something that’s related to an LCD, it’s often overturned at the administrative law judge level because it doesn’t hold any weight, because the physician’s prerogative is to take care o...
"That is different from most other health care provider groups that lobby," Vladeck said. "It's a political weapon that Medicare Advantage plans have not been at all reluctant to use." The Better Medicare Alliance reported lobbying on 18 bills this year and last, according to OpenSecrets. ...
Ordering of CT by emergency department provider type: analysis of a nationally representative sample. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2012;199(5):1054-1059. doi:10.2214/AJR.11.8303 PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 31. Baloescu C. Diagnostic imaging in emergency medicine: how much is too much?
We required exact matches for hospital National Provider Identifier number, date of birth, and sex. The date of admission could vary by ±1 day. There were 831,357 CMS claims available for matching. Using a deterministic matching strategy, 749,366 of the 831,357 possible CMS claims (93%) ...
The reason that the auditor was denying 100% of the claims was because “lower level services were not tried and ruled out.” In this instance, we have a behavioral health care provider employing staff to render ACTT services (expensive), actually rendering the ACTT services (expensive), and...