Medicare Advantage Hospice Carve Ins Medicare Advantage hospice care beneficiaries may enroll into Medicare Advantage (MA) have access to all original Medicare benefits plus additional supplemental benefits beyond what original…
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Medical ethics and biomedical ethics and the Standard of Care regarding: Patient privacy under HIPAA, Hybrid Entities under HIPAA and the Privacy Shield Standard as well as State privacy standards…
Blockchain Adoption will ultimately depend on government and market incentives Having worked in the title insurance business, I believe that blockchain could be used to enable property owners to record…
Our firm is engaged by many clients to evaluate Medicare Local Coverage determinations (a.k.a. "Medicare LCD") in specific regulatory compliance matters involving medical coding and medical billing for Medicare and…
According to Gerry Gensler, SEC chairman as of 2022, "...the crypto asset class has ballooned...the asset class purportedly is worth about $1.6 trillion, with 77 tokens worth at least $1…
HITECH Act and HIPAA Omnibus Rule HIPAA was enacted in 1996, the ARRA HITECH Act in 2009, the HIPAA Omnibus Rule in 2013. In January 2020, a Federal Court ruled…
Medicare Part D and the Affordable Care Act Medicare Part D first covered Americans in 2005. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ACA” or “PPACA”) of 2010 brought noteworthy…
Medicare Local Coverage Determinations for Genetic Testing Medicare Technical Assessment for Molecular Assays To determine coverage for genetic test Medicare LCD, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) requires a…
PAID Act Plus SMART Act Requires NGHPs to Report or Pay Penalties The Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Extension Act (MMSEA) of 2007 contains mandatory insurer reporting in Section 111 for…
Laboratory CPT Codes Laboratory CPT codes and pathology CPT codes include services primarily reported to evaluate specimens obtained from patients (body fluids, cytological specimens, or tissue specimens obtained by invasive/surgical…
