CMS also has updated its therapy manuals, making elimination of FLR official.
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Patients “managed” out of benefits on Medicare Advantage programs.
Administrative overhead for Medicare fee-for-service operations typically runs at approximately 2-3 percent. Overhead for commercial insurance plans has been reported to be 18-20 percent. So, what services are being denied by ...
MAC to audit physicians who prescribe opioids.
It is well-known to the medical community and to the general public that the opioid epidemic has taken too many lives.
The causes are myriad (I outlined these in a KevinMD.com article in 2016, the second most-read article of the year on that site, ...
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