Chiropractic Coding & Billing Articles

Medicare creates and maintains the National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) edits and NCCI Policy Manual, which identify code pair edits. When performed on the same patient, on the sam ...

You simply need to read the headlines, posts, and tweets, about providers across the healthcare profession being audited, fined, and some even convicted, to see that the costs of non-co ...

If you wonder if what you are doing is fraud, DON’T DO IT! The government takes this extremely serious. I don't need to tell you this.  I have often been apprehensive about making ...

Occasionally providers are faced with the need to assess the option of making a voluntary disclosure to the government. Here are steps that every provider should consider before disclo ...

The Office of Inspector General's (OIG) mission is to protect the integrity of Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) programs as well as the health and welfare of program benefici ...

CMS is developing a new Unified Program Integrity Contractor (UPIC) program to consolidate Medicare and Medicaid reviews. This consolidation of the Medicaid Integrity Contractors (MICs ...

Compliance specialists are responsible for monitoring health and human services program operations for compliance with federal and state regulations and standards in order to promote he ...