Category: Billing Blog

CMS issued a NCCI edit stating that any PT or OT evaluation along with CPT codes 97530 and 97150 would be subject to deny as of January 1, 2020 if performed together on the same treatment day.  In late February of 2020, CMS retracted this NCCI edit and issued a statement to outpatient therapy providers […]

The importance of cybersecurity has become increasingly prevalent in media, conversations, and business. Major software companies have been hit with fines from breaches and millions of users data has been exposed illegally. This year marks the 15th anniversary of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Here at HHS Solutions, we have pooled together some resources that we […]

This new year brings many changes to our Medicare program.  Everyone needs to be looking for and educating all your residents and families that Medicare will be issuing new Medicare cards beginning April 1, 2018.  These new cards will not display any social security number as they will be a random number derived from the […]

A massive computer virus called WannaCry has infected thousands of computers worldwide as of last week. What makes WannaCry distinct is that it does not need to have users click on a link for it to infect your machine. Some security researchers are pointing the source of the virus to the Shadow Broker’s leak of […]

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Soon rural long term care facilities will be able to apply for federal funds to help them pay for faster internet. The federal legislation was signed into law by president Obama on June 22, 2016. The law allows Long Term Care facilities to be covered under the S.1916 Rural health Care Connectivity Act of 2015. […]

It has been a whole month since the ICD-10 changeover. How did everyone fair? The challenges of learning and training employees can be difficult especially with such a significant change. With over 141,000 ICD-10 codes it is impossible to memorize every one of them.  Knowing where to start is imperative to getting the correct diagnosis […]