Happy Thanksgiving! We are very happy whenever the season of Thanksgiving is fast approaching because we consider this as a wonderful holiday that permit us the best opportunity to thank all our valued friends, supporters and clients. These previous years have really been good to our company, and so we thank all of you for continuing…
Bill Summary Colorado Stat. 10-16-123 (new rev. eff. 1/1/17) HOUSE SPONSORSHIP Buck and Ginal, SENATE SPONSORSHIP Kefalas and Martinez Humenik, Under current law, health benefit plans issued, amended, or renewed in this state cannot require in-person health care delivery for a person covered under the plan who resides in a county with 150,000 or fewer residents if…
Reminder, ACA Section 1557 Compliance Began Sunday, October 16th! All practices – regardless of practice size – are required to post the non-discrimination notice and taglines. Follow theses easy steps to ensure your practice is compliant. Post Notice of Nondiscrimination – Download PDF. – Enter practice name. – Print/post in office. – Post PDF to your website.…
Ensure Your Practice is Compliant! The ACA requires you to! Contact RT Welter today for a Coding and Documentation Audit! More than three dozen just-released audits reveal how some private Medicare plans overcharged the government for the majority of elderly patients they treated, often by overstating the severity of certain medical conditions, such as diabetes…
Written By: Toni M. Woods, CCS, CPC, AHIMA-Approved ICD-10-CM/PCS Trainer, Director of Coding/Compliance This year many are anticipating the first update to the ICD-10 code set after a lengthy 5 year code freeze. Annually, new codes are added, revised, and deleted and with this being the first year of federally mandated use for the brand…
Cash flow is often the difference between keeping a private practice private and looking for an alternative situation that may not be quite as palatable to the doctors. To us, Cash Flow is not just important… it is EVERYTHING. The staff and management of AMRS work very hard to generate regular, predictable cash flow including working…
The Senate voted today, (March 31st) to delay the switch to ICD-10 billing codes to October 2015. This is just a short delay to the industry’s inevitable transition away from the 30-year old ICD-9 to ICD-10. ICD-10 is coming and R.T. Welter & Associates, Inc. is pulling out all the stops to help our clients…
The 2014 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) final rule stipulated a negative update to the MPFS that was to be effective January 1, 2014. That reduction was averted for three months with the passage of the Pathway for SGR Reform Act of 2013, which provided for a 0.5 percent update for services paid under the…
J09.X1 — Avian Influenza with pneumonia J09.X1 — Swine influenza with other respiratory manifestations J09.X3 — Influenza A with gastrointestinal manifestations In preparation for the upcoming deadline for ICD-10 implementation, RT Welter presents weekly ICD-10 Codes of the Week! Our goal is to familiarize you with the new and expanded code set and the additional…
Do you want to be paid more? Do you want to be treated with respect by the payers? Are you working harder, taking more business risk and getting paid less? Stop It! Work smarter not harder! Does your billing department understand when it is appropriate to unbundle diagnostic and interventional procedures to maximize reimbursement? Does…