Medical Billing and Coding News

No April Fools Joke: 2% Sequester Cut in Medicare Reimbursements is Real

No Aprils Fools Joke - Medicare Cuts 2%

Sequester Cuts Medicare Reimbursements - Doctors and Patients Affected as of April 1, 2013 For any Medicare services and procedure performed on or after April 1st, 2013, doctor’s Medicare reimbursements will be cut by 2% due to the federal budget sequester cuts. Now patients will continue to have to pay their … [Read more...]

Nurse Blogs Online for Nurses Offline

Infographic for Nurses

Nursing is Rough so Take a Break and Read a Nurse Blog Life as a nurse could provide the most rewarding moments. But with hectic, sometimes unpredictable, 24-hour shifts, it is also considered one of the most demanding medical professions today. … [Read more...]

Protect Babies from Whooping Cough Infographic from the CDC

Whooping Cough Vaccine Infographic

Get All 5 Doses of the Whooping Cough Vaccine Whooping Cough cases have been on the rise since the 1990's with about 1 out of every 2 babies needing to be hospitalized if they acquire the disease.  To help parents understand how to protect thier babies the Centers for Disease Control CDC has come out with … [Read more...]

The Flu: Some Years are Worse than Others

Getting Vaccinated Reduces Chance Getting Flu by 60 Percent

The Flu and You This has been a bad year for the flu. Compared to last year hospitalizations due to the  influenza virus are up 169%. For kids in school and especially college students living in dorms or even larger families living all in … [Read more...]

Medicare Holding Claims

Medicare Card

Claims for Medicare Patients May be Held by Contractors Here we go again..... Medicare claims may be held until January 16th. Why? Because Medicare needs time to update their systems due to … [Read more...]