by Advize Admin | Apr 23, 2021 | Healthcare
Is it a patient’s responsibility to know if their insurance covers the visit or should the office manager or biller mention it? A friend recently went to an ENT specialist. With the initial office visit the office manager didn’t say anything about requiring a...
by Advize Admin | Apr 23, 2021 | Healthcare Facepalm
Mark Gottlieb’s life changed in an instant when another driver crashed into his car, damaging four vertebrae in his upper spine and smashing six teeth. In the months following that January 2019 crash, Gottlieb got the teeth crowned and, for debilitating neck pain,...
by Advize Admin | Apr 16, 2021 | Healthcare
The Biden administration Wednesday formally proposed the repeal of Trump-era regulations barring abortion referrals and making other changes intended to evict Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers from the federal family planning program, Title X....
by Advize Admin | Apr 16, 2021 | COVID19
Mary Ann Steiner drove 2½ hours from her home in the St. Louis suburb of University City to the tiny Ozark town of Centerville, Missouri, to get vaccinated against covid-19. After pulling into the drive-thru line in a church parking lot, she noticed that the others...
by Advize Admin | Apr 15, 2021 | FWA
The New York Times article “A Single Ohio Hospital Reveals All That’s Wrong With American Health Care” begs the question – how can citizens of the richest nation in history allow loved ones to die because we can’t afford lifesaving medication, like...
by Advize Admin | Apr 9, 2021 | COVID19
Last May, Baylor Scott & White Health, the largest nonprofit hospital system in Texas, laid off 1,200 employees and furloughed others as it braced for the then-novel coronavirus to spread. The cancellation of lucrative elective procedures as the hospital pivoted...
by Advize Admin | Apr 9, 2021 | FWA
Yes, the quote is the opening of A Tale of Two Cities. On the one hand, the healthcare fraud Subject Matter Experts are enjoying the small wins; while on the other hand, the new to healthcare fraud interns are struggling to understand the yoke of healthcare fraud....
by Advize Admin | Apr 9, 2021 | Providers
“Providers who may be reluctant to submit a claim for a higher level code, may in fact be taking an overly conservative approach, and submitting claims with a much lower code. ” Recently, former US Attorney for the Southern District of New York and...
by Advize Admin | Apr 1, 2021 | Healthcare Facepalm
Healthcare billing has been a hot topic for the past couple of years. With the outbreak of Covid-19, more people have had their eye’s opened to the domination and oligarchy of the healthcare industry. Many stories are never told to the public about the rising issues...
by Advize Admin | Apr 1, 2021 | FWA
The Pennsylvania Insurance Fraud Prevention Association (IFPA) recently published their 2020 annual report. While reading through it, were really excited to see some of the great work that the SIU investigators at Highmark did on a case involving a physical...
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