Yes – with less than 5 days to go – there is still significant debate about the Medical pre-claim review demonstration for Home Health...

CMS released yesterday that it plans to expand the CJR (Comprehensive Joint Replacement) bundled payment system to include not only...

AHRQ released three new guideline summaries this week. From the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons – Medical Specialty Society,...

Office of the Actuary in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released its annual projections of health care spending for...

CMS posted that registration is open for in person provider training for both rehabilitation and long-term hospital providers. Inpatient...

The False Claims Act and qui tam law have a long and interesting history together. During the Civil War, massive civilian procurements by...

I have been sitting on this ruling for a few weeks attempting to decide how I wanted to address the content within our blog. However, the...

Allegiant Experts wishes everyone one a happy and safe Independence Day! For some fun science based micro-fireworks check out the NIH...

Yep, the updated ICD-10-CM and PCS code sets are posted! Fast Facts: 1,943 new codes, 351 revised codes, and 313 deleted codes. 2017 Code...

CMS implemented the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) bundled reimbursement as of April 1st, 2016, and there are still more...

Yep, as strange as it sounds, the 96-year-old surgeon who developed the life-saving technique known as the Heimlich Maneuver had never...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released updates to the ICD-10 Provider Resources page. Please check out the...

US House of representatives Lois Frankel (D-Fla.) and William Keating (D-Mass.) introduced a bill to amend title XI of the SSA to expand...

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) updated the Practical Guide for Health Care and Public Health Professionals regarding the...

National Nurses week begans on May 6 and ends on May 12, Florence Nightingale’s birthday. Nurses play a critical role in healthcare and...

Medicaid Managed Care Enrollment Report and Data Released CMS released the 2014 Managed Care enrollment Data! According to Medicare the...

With Nursing Week upon us, it comes as a shock that while we continue to make a focused effort on safer nursing practices, medical errors...

Medicare has implemented the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) Model as of April 1st, 2016!  Yep, as if the DRG system and...

Healthcare providers, payer and guardians of PHI can unknowingly make their data available to hackers and thieves by not keeping their...

Medical malpractice damage caps are a relatively common practice, with approximately 70% of states having adopted some kind of law that...