The Medical Minute – MMI Medical Blog
CMS Expands Accelerated and Advance Payment Program During COVID-19
Within the past week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced an expansion of the accelerated and advance payments program for providers and suppliers during the COVID-19 pandemic. To increase cash flow to providers impacted by the COVID-19...
CMS Provider Enrollment Relief Program
Due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that it is scaling back on provider enrollment restrictions. CMS is practicing its waiver authority for physicians and non-physician practitioners, or NPPs to help...
Working From Home Tips
With many of us working from home indefinitely due to COVID-19, it is important to know some tips and tricks to be productive while working from home. Here are some tips to make your home a bit more like work to help you stay mentally focused on your job: Have a...
New Code for Vaping-Related Disorder
Vaping has become a trend within the past few years, and first started becoming popular as many people thought it was a better alternative to smoking cigarettes. The Center on Addiction defines Vaping as: Vaping is the act of inhaling and exhaling the aerosol, often...
What is Population Health Management and why is it important?
While Population Health Management and Social Determinants of Health are not new subjects, it is an area of growing concern with not enough attention of fully implementing in healthcare facilities and practices. It is truly important to understand how these...
UPDATE: Coronavirus and How it Affects Healthcare Professionals
You may remember MMI’s blog post about the Coronavirus from the first outbreak here in the United States that was posted on January 23, 2020. We are happy to report that we were one of the first institutions in healthcare to report on the outbreak and what it means to...
Medical Decision Making vs. Medical Necessity
With clinician reimbursement, a high quality of evaluation and management documentation is needed. E/M services are the most vulnerable to billing errors due to the complication of selecting the proper code for the level of service if the documentation is not there....
Career Development – Should it be important to your organization or practice?
Although a job-hopping mentality has become more and more common, smart organizations recognize this mentality and have countermeasures to create more of a growth-centered atmosphere where employees can grow and advance within their organization. This not only...
E/M Changes Coming in 2021
For the first time since 1997, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the American Medical Association (AMA) have decided to significantly alter documentation requirements for the coding and bill of evaluation and management (E/M) visit codes. These...
More Information on CPT Code Updates
In September 2019, the American Medical Association (AMA) announced the release of the 2020 Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set. This code set contains identifiers and descriptors assigned to each surgical, medical, and diagnostic service available to...