How COVID-19 Has Affected Healthcare Workers Since COVID-19 hit the U.S. in March 2020, the most popular topic of conversation has been the desperate need for more respirators, increased testing, and proper (in effectiveness and numbers) personal protective equipment...
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is taking aggressive action, including regulatory flexibilities and blanket waivers, to help healthcare providers combat the spread of COVID-19 for the duration of the pandemic. For skilled nursing facilities...
Hospital administrators, physicians, and members of every healthcare office billing department know that if their practice or hospital provides services to Medicare patients, they must be prepared to possibly receive a request to be audited from the Medicare Parts C...
Hospitals strive to place two goals at the forefront of their day-to-day operations: patient safety and continual improvement of the quality of care that the facility provides for its patients. These goals are often diametrically opposed to another key item on the...
Among healthcare practitioners, there is sometimes confusion between “payer enrollment” and “medical credentialing”. The process of payer enrollment and credentials verification is intricate and it becomes more so with each passing year. Contract with a CVO Without...
CVO credentialing refers to the use of a Credentials Verification Organization to perform medical credentialing on behalf of a healthcare practice or organization. The CVO is tasked with obtaining primary source verification of a provider’s documents on the...
