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How to Rationalize Chargemaster Prices
Have you ever wondered how hospital prices became so irrational? As is often the case, things changed incrementally. Hospitals and healthcare systems have experienced years of inadequate inflationary update factors, often reduced by factors such as presumed over-coding under the federal inpatient and outpatient prospective payment systems.

How to Comply With (and Exceed) the CMS Hospital Price Transparency Rule Requirements
CMS penalties have dramatically increased since the Price Transparency Rule was released, and providers must take heed before CMS and a legislative gauntlet arrive at their front door.

Evaluation and Management (E&M) Split (or Shared) Visits – 2022 Summary of Changes
The 2022 Final Rule defines split (or shared) visits as evaluation and management (E&M) visits in the facility setting that are performed in part by both the physician and a non-physician practitioner (NPP) who are in the same group, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

Document Your Leftovers: The JW Modifier and How to Use It
On Jan. 1, 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services…

New Modifiers: Hospital Outpatient Billing for Injectable Self-Administered Drugs
Do you and your team have a good process to readily identify…

What’s on Your 2021 OIG Compliance Greatest Hits List?
Compliance plans are critical to making sure your organization…

New ICD-10 Codes Create Clarity in Capturing COVID in 2021
The chaos and confusion fomented throughout the American healthcare…

Panacea Unveils Comprehensive Summary of 2021 OPPS Final Rule
Following the recent unveiling by federal officials of the 2021…

Panacea Announces No-Cost Diagnostic Review of Hospital Chargemaster ahead of CMS Final Rule Posting Deadline
The comprehensive diagnostic review includes analysis of CMS…

Webinar: CMS Price Transparency – How to Comply with Consumer Display & Machine-Readable File Requirements
Designed for hospitals just starting on their consumer display…