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Ask the Expert: Achieving Transparency
Q Are there any best practices that you can recommend for transparency?
Ask the Expert: Medicare Payment for Home Health
Medicare does not distinguish payment by hospital-based or stand-alone home health agencies.
Ask the Expert: Small Claims Court Proceedings
In developing a policy for small claims court proceedings, there are a few homework and research items you will need to complete before proceeding.
Ask the Expert: Adjusting and Automating Self-Pay Accounts
Adjusting and automoating self-pay accounts.
Ask the Expert: When Physicians Terminate Medicare Part B Contracts
When physicians terminate Medicare Part B contracts.
Ask the Expert: Calculating Weighted Averages in Favored Nation Clauses
Calculating weighted averages in favored nation clauses.
Ask the Expert: How Far Can Plans Make Patients Travel?
Can a health plan make a patient travel outside a particular service area (say 40 miles away) to receive care from an exclusively contracted provider?
Ask the Expert: Managed Care Payment Trends
Do you know of any studies that may support managed care payer payment trends to hospitals for 2011, 2012, etc?
Ask the Expert Answer: HIPAA Changes
Is there guidance to ensure that all the recent changes to HIPAA are incorporated in policies, procedures, notices and contracts?
Ask the Expert: Matching Billing to Service Under One Tax ID
We have a variety of business units that bill off different billing systems for unique service lines. How can I get only the funds for each billing area correctly remitted just to that unit?