2023 E&M Updates Resources
Wondering how the 2023 updates to E&M guidelines affect your team? Look no further. Our experts have developed a set of customized resources to aid professionals as they put the guidelines into practice.
How to Rationalize Chargemaster Prices
Have you ever wondered how hospital prices became so irrational? As is often the case, things changed incrementally. Hospitals and healthcare systems have experienced years of inadequate inflationary update factors, often reduced by factors such as presumed over-coding under the federal inpatient and outpatient prospective payment systems.
Document Your Leftovers: The JW Modifier and How to Use It
On Jan. 1, 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) began requiring the use of the JW modifier. The JW modifier is appended […]
New Modifiers: Hospital Outpatient Billing for Injectable Self-Administered Drugs
Do you and your team have a good process to readily identify and bill appropriately for self-administered drugs? The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has had a longstanding […]
What’s on Your 2021 OIG Compliance Greatest Hits List?
Compliance plans are critical to making sure your organization is mitigating risk. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) recommends that you audit […]
New ICD-10 Codes Create Clarity in Capturing COVID in 2021
The chaos and confusion fomented throughout the American healthcare industry by the continuing COVID-19 pandemic has been bad enough in of itself – but when coders found themselves unable to […]
Panacea Unveils Comprehensive Summary of 2021 OPPS Final Rule
Following the recent unveiling by federal officials of the 2021 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) Final Rule, Panacea Healthcare Solutions has created a comprehensive Final Rule Summary highlighting some of […]
CMS and AMA Fourth Quarter 2020 Coding Updates: Panacea Summary and Recommendations
Our revenue integrity team continually monitors announcements by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the American Medical Association (AMA) to bring you the most current and up-to-date […]
Panacea Special Edition / Laboratory Services Update During COVID-19 PHE
Panacea’s consultants have been closely monitoring both Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and American Medical Association (AMA) published guidance for newly created codes for billing during the COVID-19 […]