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Brief about Wound Care Reimbursements in Various Healthcare Settings

Medisys Compliance

Wound care is provided in various healthcare settings like inpatient hospital, outpatient clinics, long-term care facilities, home health settings, hospice and skilled nursing facilities. For example, patients who require ongoing wound care but do not need to be hospitalized can receive treatment in outpatient clinics.

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3 Key Wound Care Billing Updates for 2024

Medisys Compliance

Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) Updates OPPS is a payment system used by Medicare to reimburse hospitals for outpatient services, including some wound care procedures. These updates reflect changes in healthcare costs and utilization patterns. That’s where we come in.

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Direct Billing by MFTs and MHCs: A Comprehensive Guide for Year 2024

Medisys Compliance

You can bill for services provided in various settings, including your private practice office, hospitals, outpatient clinics, and even some telehealth platforms. About Medisys While navigating direct billing independently is commendable, consider partnering with a medical billing company like Medisys.

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Revised Updates for Renal Dialysis Billing

Medisys Compliance

Proposed ESRD Payment System. This rule also proposes an update to the Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) dialysis payment rate for renal dialysis services furnished by ESRD facilities for calendar year (CY) 2023. To know more about our Medicare billing services, contact us at info@medisysdata.com / 302-261-9187.

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Understanding 3-Day Payment Window for Outpatient Billing

Medisys Compliance

What is 3-Day Payment Window? Medicare’s 3-day (or 1-day) payment window applies to outpatient services that hospitals and hospital wholly owned or wholly operated Part B entities furnish to Medicare beneficiaries. Hospital subject to 1-Day Payment Window. Inpatient rehabilitation hospitals and units.

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Availity Fills in Staff Knowledge at the Point of Engagement with Patients

Healthcare IT Today

Health care is not one single system, but multiple systems offering a bewildering variety of diagnostic and treatment options, backed by a plethora of payment systems that vary from patient.

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Enhancing Payment Integrity in Healthcare through Pre-Payment Reviews

Healthcare IT Today

Benefits of Implementing a Pre-Payment Model Overreliance on a post-payment claims review process perpetuates systemic inaccuracy and waste. It’s estimated that up to 80 percent of medical bills contain errors amounting to billions of dollars that are lost annually to payers.