Medicare Geographic Anesthesia Conversion Factors for 2005 (11/10/2004)
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Final rule on adoption of National Provider Identifier (1/30/2004)
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Final 2004 Anesthesia Conversion Factors (1/16/2004)
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ASA amends position on MAC (10/15/2003)
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Anesthesia CF to Drop 3.6% in 2004 (11/7/2003)
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Anesthesiologists Face 4% Fee Cut Next Year
Anesthesiologists will get a 4% cut in their fees in 2004, if CMS has anything to say about it. That's what the agency recommends in its proposed fee schedule. Physicians overall got cut 4.2%. [click to download the complete article ]
2004 Proposed Fee Schedule Changes to Pain Management RVUs [click to download the complete article ]
Medicare Recoupments Cancelled, click here for more info.
National News: Click here to review SummitHMR's nationally published article on Optimizing Your Collections.
Click here to view the Geographic Anesthesia Conversion factors for 2003 with the 2.7% increase.
HIPAA Resource Center
Complying with the HIPAA Security RuleApril 20, 2005, is the deadline for compliance with the Security Rule, part of the Administrative Simplification provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). [click here to read the article]
Final rule on adoption of National Provider Identifier
HIPAA Administrative Simplification: Standard Unique Health Identifier for Health Care Providers; Final Rule [click to download the complete article in PDF format]
HIPAA Tips for Anesthesiologists
Take 4 Steps Now to Prepare for Claims Payment Problems after Oct. 16
Like many providers, you may be in for a shock on Oct. 16, the date you expect to start filing your claims electronically in compliance with the HIPAA transactions and code sets (TCS) standards. [click to download the complete article in PDF format]
"What the heck is HIPAA?"
HIPAA is the acronym for the "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1986". What anesthesiologists need to know, however, is that HIPAA is the law. HIPAA mandates "administrative simplification" of the health care system, including health care providers who conduct basic health care translations electronically, hospitals and payers. [click to download the complete article in PDF format]
HIPAA Privacy Rules
Compliance Deadline Approaches
"There is an extremely high level of confusion, misunderstanding, frustration, anxiety; fear and anger as the April 14, 2003, compliance date nears."
Thus wrote the chair of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) to Tommy G. Thompson, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), on November 25, 2002. The letter contained a large number of recommendations from NCVHS, an official advisory body, to HHS regarding specific measures needed to help educate providers. [click to download the complete article in PDF format]
Have you established an Organized Health Care Arrangement with your Hospital? Click here if you haven't.
The Flow of Billing Information Click here for more information.
Providers Get Relief on HIPAA Transactions Rule. Click here for more information