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Boost Injection Pay — Just Ask, Listen for Missed Items

Uncircled vaccines, administrations could cost your practice 10%.

Think increasing payments in 2010 is a fairy tale? Your magic wand is right at your front desk.

“Check-out coding can have a significant financial impact,” reported Norman “Chip” Harbaugh, MD, in...

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April 28, 2010
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CMS’s Refusal to Pay Consults Makes MSP Claims a Headache

If you bill consults to private payers, good luck collecting the balance from Medicare secondary payers. Don’t even think about billing a consult to Medicare — even if it’s only a secondary payer claim. Medicare may have scratched consultations off of its list of payable services, but many other insurers did not follow suit. This leaves you in [...] Related articles:

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