Ask the Expert: Achieving Transparency
Q Are there any best practices that you can recommend for transparency?
Ask the Expert: Medicare Payment for Home Health
Medicare does not distinguish payment by hospital-based or stand-alone home health agencies.
Ask the Expert: Small Claims Court Proceedings
In developing a policy for small claims court proceedings, there are a few homework and research items you will need to complete before proceeding.
Ask the Expert: Adjusting and Automating Self-Pay Accounts
Adjusting and automoating self-pay accounts.
Ask the Expert: When Physicians Terminate Medicare Part B Contracts
When physicians terminate Medicare Part B contracts.
Ask the Expert: Calculating Weighted Averages in Favored Nation Clauses
Calculating weighted averages in favored nation clauses.
Ask the Expert: How Far Can Plans Make Patients Travel?
Can a health plan make a patient travel outside a particular service area (say 40 miles away) to receive care from an exclusively contracted provider?
Ask the Expert: Managed Care Payment Trends
Do you know of any studies that may support managed care payer payment trends to hospitals for 2011, 2012, etc?
Ask the Expert: Recording Meaningful Use Payments
HFMA's Principles & Practices Board is working on publishing guidance on the recording of meaningful use payments.
FY12 IPPS Final Rule Overview
This document provides an overview of CMS's final rule updating the payment rates under the IPPS and the LTCH PPS for fiscal year 2012 (FY12).