When looking at your Outpatient Physical and Occupational Therapy departments, have you noticed a decrease in the volume of outpatient services? At Blue & Co. we often find that many […]
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Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Prospective Payment System (PPS) Final Rule (CMS-1746-F) was released on July 29, 2021 by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). […]
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Outpatient Physical and Occupational Therapy are both paid either on a fee schedule or as a percent of charges. This means that if you are missing charges, you are missing […]
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On July 20th, HRSA hosted a Reporting Technical Assistance Session regarding the Provider Relief Funds Portal. A few members of the Blue & Co. team attended this online session and […]
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New HCPCS codes related to consolidated billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities goes into effect, Oct. 1, 2021. CMS states that this will impact any SNF that “bill Medicare Administrative Contractors […]
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The 340B Program has seen a lot of changes in 2021. Join Blue & Co.’s Apexus Advanced 340B Experts for a webinar on Thursday, July 15 at 12:00 p.m. In […]
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Staying Ahead of the CMS Auditor: Why Documentation in Outpatient Rehabilitation Matters The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) suspended audits between March and August of 2020 to allow […]
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This is the year for many changes in healthcare and the physician coding changes that were announced in March 2021 are just one piece of that. Evaluation and Management services […]
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The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 authorized $460 million of additional funding through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to more than 4,600 eligible RHCs for the […]
Read MoreEvery day your organization goes through different transactions that could require your financial statements to be audited by an independent certified public accountant (CPA) firm. So, what triggers an audit? […]
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When a teaching hospital closes, there are several factors the hospital must consider. While there are many financial factors the hospital must figure out, including how to pay outstanding debts […]
They sit in your computer’s hard drive, or perhaps even in an old file cabinet in the corner. They can create a lot of unnecessary work, force you to devote […]
Effective July 1, 2025, the state has expanded oversight of the 340B Program, requiring all hospital covered entities with a service address in Indiana to submit detailed annual reports to […]
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