The American Medical Association (AMA) released four new Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) codes for bivalent COVID-19 vaccines for young children.Read More »
Q: If an anesthesiologist performs a presurgical or postsurgical block for pain control and it is performed in a holding area rather than in the operating room (OR), can we bill a separate facility (technical) fee for that? Or would this be bundled with OR services?Read More »
Better-performing revenue integrity programs have clear objectives with defined roles and expectations. This prevents overlap between functions, including those of the billing office, compliance, internal audit, and clinical operations. Your...Read More »
CMS extended enforcement discretion, pending future rulemaking, for providing good faith estimates (GFE) for uninsured or self-pay patients that include price estimates from co-providers or co-facilities. The agency announced the pause in a December 2 FAQ, citing technical limitations.Read More »
CMS recently released new hospital price transparency sample formats. The formats, which come in wide, tall, and plain, may be used by hospitals to meet the requirement to make standard charges publicly available in a machine-readable file.Read More »
Revenue integrity salaries are trending back upward, according to respondents to NAHRI's 2022 Revenue Integrity Salary Survey. In 2022, 78% reported earning an annual salary of more than $69,999 annually, compared to 66% in 2021 and 77% in 2020. As in previous years, annual salaries were spread...Read More »
Revenue integrity experts, we want to hear from you. NAHRI is currently seeking speakers for the 2023 Revenue Integrity Symposium (RIS), to be held September 18–19, 2023, in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Automation and similar technologies are increasingly prevalent in revenue integrity but understanding best practices and long-term implications is still a major challenge. Learn how one organization is tackling misconceptions to make breakthroughs in deploying automation.Read More »