Twenty percent of the addresses associated with the National Provider Identification numbers issued by the federal government this year are wrong, a new report contends. Some 19.7 percent of the ...

Providers have been going through some serious headaches already working to make sure they use their National Provider Identifier number properly to avoid getting claims bounced by Medicare. Now, CMS ...

When it comes to Medicare, billing under the wrong physician’s ID can cost doctors and hospitals – literally. Consider these three recent incidents that, taken together, resulted in more than $7 ...

Well, everyone knew the following was going to happen, but CMS plowed ahead anyway--though maybe it had to do so or risk never launching at all. As predicted, things have gotten really messy in the ...

Hospitals and health systems could improve communication between providers and billing departments by increasing provider awareness of reimbursement claims processes, said the authors of a national ...

information about any company you use for electronic claims transmissions; and if you are employed with a company which staffs healthcare organizations, information about that company. The applicant ...

Area code 541 covers the majority of Oregon, excluding the northwestern region primarily served by area code 503 and the ...

Whether you are a practitioner or own a health care service such as a nursing home, home health agency, hospice or durable equipment supply company, you must complete a multiple-step process to bill ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn and Jason Riley. Images: Zuma Press/Invision/AP Composite: Mark Kelly Each year millions of patients visit their ...