The American Medical Association (AMA) has issued new Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes for pediatric doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.
In September 2021, Pfizer and BioNTech shared the...
The price for air ambulance transports has risen substantially over the past couple of years, especially for commercially insured patients, according to a recent FAIR Health analysis.
The analysis...
The American Medical Association (AMA) is calling the latest in a series of surprise billing regulations “an undeserved gift to the insurance industry that will reduce [healthcare] options for...
HHS has reduced the Medicare appeals backlog at the Administrative Judge Level by 79 percent, which puts the department on track to clear the backlog by the end of the 2022 fiscal year.
As of June 30,...
The difference between clean claims and initial claims denials is a major key performance indicator (KPI) that hospitals track, according to a new survey.
The new survey from healthcare revenue cycle...
COVID-19 hospitalizations can cost up to $318,000, according to new cost estimates from FAIR Health.
The FAIR Health Total Treatment Cost COVID-19 benchmarks account for the costs incurred by COVID-19...
Financial incentives for medical assistants have the potential to increase their motivation at work and improve the quality of the care they provide, according to a study in The Annals of Medicine....
In nearly two decades, the overall concentration of healthcare spending has remained steady, but there has been an increase in the concentration of prescription drug spending, according to a study in...
A new report shows the employers will use payer-specific negotiated rates exposed by hospital price transparency requirements to extract lower reimbursement rates from providers in their...
Midland Memorial Hospital agreed to pay over $555,000 for a medical coding error that resulted in claims being sent out for reimbursement from the government even though patients did not have a primary...
The impact the unvaccinated population is having on healthcare spending is significant, according to a new analysis from Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF).
There were approximately 287,000 preventable...
CMS will begin to reprocess claims for outpatient clinic visit services provided at excepted off-campus provider-based departments, following a reinstated site-neutral payment policy. The agency will...
Congress allocated $178 billion to the Provider Relief Fund to help hospitals overcome the financial and operational challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. But the primary distribution method for the aid...
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is urging HHS to distribute billions of dollars still sitting in the COVID-19 Provider Relief Fund.
The Sept. 2 special bulletin from the AHA said that it...
The new 2022 Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set aims to streamline medical coding and documentation of COVID-19 vaccinations, among other updates.
The code set released today by the...
The American Medical Association (AMA) has announced updates to the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set to account for changes to COVID-19 vaccines, including booster shots expected to...
The Medicare Trust Fund is still expected to run out by 2026 despite increased Medicare spending on COVID-19 treatment and prevention over the past year and a half, a new report reveals.
The annual...
Medical groups are urging Congress to prevent significant cuts to Medicare payment that could be triggered by recent spending bills and a proposed rule from CMS.
In a letter to Congressional leaders,...
Most hospitals suffered heavy financial losses during the COVID-19 pandemic as a direct result of the fee-for-service payment system, yet progress toward a more stable, risk-based revenue structure...
Getting shots into arms has been a top priority for healthcare providers since the federal government gave the green light to several COVID-19 vaccines. But while speed was key for immunizers, medical...
