Just as other industries are rolling back some consumer-friendly changes made early in the pandemic — think empty middle seats on airplanes — so, too, are health insurers. Many voluntarily waived all deductibles, copayments and other costs for insured patients who fell ill with covid-19 and needed hospital care, doctor visits, medications or other treatment….
Should a patient who suffers a medical condition as a result of their treatment have to pay for the resulting treatment? Should the financial responsibility go to their insurance or the facility that caused the problem? Before everyone starts hitting the comment button and mentioning hospital-acquired conditions, let us set the stage for the scenario:…
Friend of Advize and healthcare payer expert Dino Kasdagly put together a helpful resource for healthcare professionals looking to quickly refresh their knowledge on Medicare as a Secondary Payer practices. Below you will find several popular instances in which Medicare benefits are secondary to Group Health Plan (GHP) benefits. If the documented employer has more…
The Fraud Spotlight series is a long-form examination of current fraud trends and investigative strategies from our team of retired OIG agents and expert fraud investigators. Stay tuned for weekly insights, updates, and information on healthcare’s most expensive crimes. Recently, we discussed a situation where Medicare may still pay for a service, item or procedure…
Retired OIG Special Agent and Advize’s Director of Litigation & FWA Support will be stepping in each week to examine current fraud trends from the lens of an investigator. Stay tuned for weekly insights, updates, and information on healthcare’s most expensive crimes. Every day, we read another article or another news release about the ever-changing…
Retired OIG Special Agent and Advize’s Director of Litigation & FWA Support will be stepping in each week to examine current fraud trends from the lens of an investigator. Stay tuned for weekly insights, updates, and information on healthcare’s most expensive crimes. Although I had strongly thought about not discussing anything COVID-19 related in this…
As we approach the month of June, we also begin our downward slide towards the end of HEDIS season. HEDIS season, in all its glory, stretches through about 3 calendar seasons – and requires hard work from providers, chart reviewers, and record collection companies from December through October – depending on program enrollment, measures, and…
UnitedHealthcare and the American Medical Association have partnered up to take the next step towards a patient-centric healthcare system. Earlier this month, the organizations announced their intent to propose a collection of 23 new ICD-10 codes associated with social determinants of health (SDoH). This collaboration is just one of many initiatives fronted by UnitedHealthcare and…
The United States healthcare system is responsible for several crowning achievements, modern innovations, and…failures. Among those failures is the creation of helicopter patient care. You’ve heard about helicopter parenting, the overbearing, over-anxious, micromanagement of children – but we’ve been adopting a similar philosophy when it comes to patient care and patient communication. It might be…
Earlier this week, Advize Health partnered with Grassi Healthcare Advisors to host a webinar on transgender healthcare. This webinar sought out to educate the healthcare community not only on coding for transgender patients, but on every aspect of care for this critically underserved population, from claims denials to the cost of transitioning. The convergence of…