Patients Over Paperwork Fight Continues

Alix Braun, MPH

In June, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a Request for Information (RFI), titled “Reducing Administrative Burden to Put Patients Over Paperwork.” The proposal, which CMS Administrator Seema Verma first introduced in October 2017, aims to decrease the regulatory requirements that lead to overly burdensome reporting measures for clinicians.

Does Your Practice Treat Pain?

Cheryl Toth, MBA

Get your payer coverage policies and E/M coding and documentation in order Interventional pain management is a growing specialty, and many orthopaedic groups have added an interventionalist to the physician team. If this is the case for your practice, make sure the interventionalist understands the reimbursement and documentation nuances essential to optimizing payment and mitigating payer takeback risk.

Issues Loom Over Recent CMS Decision

Jeffery D. Angel, MD, MFin

Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) was removed from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) inpatient-only (IPO) list on Jan. 1, 2018.

Hiring a Healthcare Consultant Can Help In Certain Situations

Lisa Warren, CPC, MSHA, MBA

This article is the first of a two-part series; the second installment will appear in the October issue of AAOS Now. In today’s constantly changing and complex healthcare environment, it can seem impossible to keep up with the latest industry trends, operational efficiencies, software and security requirements, legal/compliance issues, and more. That is because it is impossible.