OIG Audit Finds 61% Of Medicare Claims For Outpatient PT Noncompliant
What would we do without the Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services? More commonly known as CMS, the collection of the health insurance...
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Allegiant Experts
Aug 23, 20173 min read
OIG Issues Largest EMTALA Fine In History Of The 31 Year-Old Law
In 1986, the federal government enacted the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. Known as EMTALA, for short, it’s a law that...
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Allegiant Experts
Jul 26, 20165 min read
Alert: Proposed CMS rule for coordinated cardiac and hip fracture care
CMS released yesterday that it plans to expand the CJR (Comprehensive Joint Replacement) bundled payment system to include not only...
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Allegiant Experts
Jul 25, 20163 min read
CMS Projections of National Health Expenditures Data Released
Office of the Actuary in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released its annual projections of health care spending for...
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Allegiant Experts
Jul 20, 20161 min read
Alert: CMS IRF and LTCH Quality Reporting Training in August!
CMS posted that registration is open for in person provider training for both rehabilitation and long-term hospital providers. Inpatient...
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Allegiant Experts
Jul 1, 20161 min read
2017 ICD-10-CM Update Released
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...
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Allegiant Experts
Jun 30, 20162 min read
Move over CJR…Here comes OCM!!!
CMS implemented the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) bundled reimbursement as of April 1st, 2016, and there are still more...
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Allegiant Experts
Jun 2, 20163 min read
CMS In Hot Water For Inability To Stop Medicaid And Medicare Abuse
At Allegiant Experts, we wholeheartedly believe that we side with what’s right. It is right that Americans have access to much needed...
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Allegiant Experts
May 26, 20161 min read
CMS releases new ICD-10 Resources
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released updates to the ICD-10 Provider Resources page. Please check out the...
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Allegiant Experts
May 24, 20161 min read
New bill would expand the scope of who can be excluded due to healthcare fraud
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...
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Allegiant Experts
Apr 4, 20163 min read
The Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) Model is here!
Medicare has implemented the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) Model as of April 1st, 2016! Yep, as if the DRG system and...
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Allegiant Experts
Feb 29, 20163 min read
Readmission Rates are Down?
Is the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP) reducing hospital readmission rates? The New England Journal of Medicine published a...
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