Monthly Archives: November 2021
Free webinar on Notice of Admission (NOA) for Home Health
Our colleagues at Imark Billing posted an excellent webinar on the Notice of Admission, which takes effect in January. As our clients know, CCG does not handle home health billing. We refer clients to Imark, and Lynn Labarta in particular, … Read Full Post
What We’re Reading – The Bounce of a Ping-Pong Ball May Spell Doom for OSHA’s ETS
Much uncertainty surrounds the OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) of November 5, 2021, requiring unvaccinated employees of employers with 100 or more employees to receive a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination or undergo regular COVID-19 testing. By regular, they mean weekly. For … Read Full Post
AMA Released Additional COVID-19 vaccine CPT codes
Vaccine-specific CPT codes have been developed to reflect each COVID vax’s dosing schedule for better tracking, reporting and analysis. The AMA recently added codes for a new vaccine formulation based on a tris-sucrose buffer rather than the phosphate buffer present … Read Full Post
Wage & Hour Series: Enforcement
In this four-part series on common wage & hour issues, we’ve discussed overtime, minimum wage and FMLA. Other WHD issues remain, but since they don’t generally apply to most of our company’s clients, we’ll simply refer curious individuals to the … Read Full Post
Hidden MRA Treasure – Part 4
In this blog series, we’ve been highlighting relatively unknown risk adjusted conditions or ones that bring some confusion; so far, we’ve looked at a few pulmonary disorders, most recently, bronchiectasis. Today, we’ll consider the adrenal nodule, coded E27.9. Found above … Read Full Post
2022 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule
This week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published the 2022 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final rules that will govern payments starting on January 1st. According to CMS, the final rule will promote greater use of telehealth and … Read Full Post