by Medical Management Institute | Jan 10, 2020 | Medical Coding, MMI Blog
Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) has recently become a main topic in the healthcare industry. With updates and expansions to ICD-10-CM and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), the more recent approach is to medicalize social problems.... 
by Medical Management Institute | Jan 3, 2020 | Medical Coding, MMI Blog
Patients are now more involved in their blood pressure (BP) monitoring. This involvement from the patient makes it easier for physicians to diagnose and manage the patient’s hypertension. With 10 years of evidence from research proving the benefits of self-measured... 
by Medical Management Institute | Dec 27, 2019 | Medicare, MMI Blog
Medicare has issued beneficiaries their new member cards with Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers or MBI, in lieu of using their Social Security Numbers (SSN) for over two years now. In 2019, Medicare would accept either a beneficiary’s Social Security Number or their... 
by Medical Management Institute | Dec 20, 2019 | Healthcare, MMI Blog
Read part one of this blog here. Requirements for making public all standard charges for all items and services: Hospitals must compile standard charges for all items and services offered by the hospital in an electronic file which needs to be displayed on the... 
by Medical Management Institute | Dec 11, 2019 | Compliance Updates, Healthcare, MMI Blog
Beginning January 1, 2021 all hospitals in the US will be required to disclose standard charges for services and items offered to their patients. Many hospitals already do this, but the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized policies that will... 