Practice e-Tips on Medicare

Billing - Claims - Coding

Billing Medicare for Locum Tenens
Can I Override Medicare's Correct Coding Initiative Edits?
Heads Ups: New and Notable From Medicare
How to Use Modifier 59 in Medicare Claims
Incentive Payments for Group-Practice Physicians
“Incident to” and the Initial Medicare Visit
Is Medicare’s Chronic Care Management Program for You?
Medicare Changes Payment for Incomplete Colonoscopies
Medicare Chronic Care Management: Who Can Bill for Service?
Medicare Claim Errors: The Easy and the Common
Medicare Now Pays Separately for Advance Care Planning
Medicare Pays for Chronic Care Management That Uses an EHR
Medicare to Give Diagnostic Imaging Procedures a Raise
Medicare Will Deny Ordered/Referred Claims Without Enrollment
MSP Electronic Claims — Easy as 1-2-3
New Codes for Glaucoma Screening Services
New Laws Require Billing Disclosures by Physicians
New Medicare Regs and Code Affect Wheelchair and Scooter Prescriptions
New Patient Visit: Three Years Is a Key
News From Novitas: Draft LCDs, Forms, and Errors to Avoid
Physicians in Group Practice,Same Specialty Must Bill Medicare as One
Ten Services You Can Bill Medicare for Separately From a Surgical Procedure
TMA’s Free Tool Helps With Medicare Ordering/Referring Claims
Understanding “Incident to” Billing
Use Correct Surgery Modifiers in Medicare Claims
Use Modifier AT With Tetanus Vaccine
Using an Electronic Advance Beneficiary Notice
Watch Those Extra Fees For Medicare Patients
Who Can Do the Face-to-Face Encounter for Home Health?
Will Medicare Cover a Conference With My Patient’s Guardian?

Documentation

Chronic Care Management: The Patient Agreement
Documenting the Home Health Face-to-Face Encounter for Medicare
Medicare Incentive Payments for Group-Practice Physicians
Medicare Pays for Chronic Care Management That Uses an EHR
New Laws Require Billing Disclosures by Physicians
Novitas Requires Certain Forms for Paper Documentation
Satisfying Medicare’s “In Writing” Disclosure Requirement
Ways to Avoid a Medicare Appeal

Enrollment & Participation

Do You Prescribe Medicare Part D Drugs?
MACRA Makes Medicare Opt-Out Changes
Medicare Delayed Part D Rule; Don’t Delay Your Enrollment
Medicare Part D Provider Enrollment Separate From Part B
Medicare Will Deny Ordered/Referred Claims Without Enrollment

National Provider Identifier

Medicare Incentive Payments for Group-Practice Physicians
More Answers to Your NPI Questions
NPI Entity Type 1/Type 2 and Medicare Provider Numbers

Overpayments

Documenting the Home Health Face-to-Face Encounter for Medicare
How to File a Medicare Extended Repayment Plan
Medicare: Overpayment, and a CMS-1500 Tip Plus a Cool Tool

Resources

Coverage Mandate: Colorectal Cancer Screening
Don’t Offer Gifts or Other Inducements to Medicare or Medicaid Patients
ESRD Calculator
If Your Practice Is Selected for a CERT Review
Medicare Limits Who Can Perform Incident-to Therapy Services
New Medicare Regs and Code Affect Wheelchair and Scooter Prescriptions
Novitas Requires Certain Forms for Paper Documentation
Timing for Annual Mammograms
TMA’s Free Tool Helps With Medicare Ordering/Referring Claims
Use the RAC Discussion Period to Communicate About Medicare Audit

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Last Updated On

April 07, 2025

Originally Published On

March 23, 2010

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