Thursday, March 19, 2020 at noon – 1 pm EST Speaker: Gwen Simons Webinar Recording and Resources Posted HERE! Webinar Description: COVID-19 is causing businesses to panic. Loss of as little as 1 month of revenue could cause a business to fail. PT practices need to make a survival plan now! In this webinar we […]
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Dr. Leonard has provided continuing education seminars nationwide in the areas of administration, Medicare, billing and coding, compliance, and neurological rehabilitation. She is a past member of the APTA Public Policy and Advocacy Committee (PPAC) and is a current member of the Private Practice Section Annual Program Work Group and the SCAPTA Payment and Policy
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We have reliable information that the following health plans DO NOT require AIM pre-authorization in Maine: Maine Health Maine Teacher’s Association (MEA Trust) CMP Federal BCBS AIM’s message when you try to obtain pre-auth for these plans tells you to call Anthem. You do not need to do this. I recommend, however, that you ask
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Q: My patient has a Medicare Supplemental Insurance Plan. She wants to know if she can submit her claims to the supplemental insurance plan without submitting to Medicare first. Should I give her a statement to submit? A: Some supplemental plans may reimburse their insureds for medically necessary services provided by unenrolled providers without requiring
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Anthem Requiring AIM Pre-authorization for All Commercial Claims as of Nov. 1, 2019 Anthem and AIM have announced that the new effective date for requiring AIM pre-authorization for commercial plans will be November 1, 2019. If you think you will be seeing existing commercial patients past Nov. 1, you will need to get pre-authorization before
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CLIENT ALERT Some Maine PT providers have received a letter from Anthem dated August 28, 2019 stating they did a review of claims between 2/1/2018 and 1/31/2019 and their utilization of CPT code 97110 was “outside the average utilization for your specialty.” The letter appears to be a template form. It is not even properly
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Advice on Superbills When you agree to see a Medicare beneficiary who has elected to pay you cash instead of seeing a Medicare enrolled provider you are accepting some risk that the patient may try to submit your receipts to Medicare for reimbursement or to obtain a denial for a Medicare Supplemental Plan. If the patient
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Member Webinar In this webinar, Gwen Simons discusses general employment laws that business owners should know, including the Fair Labor Standards Act, OSHA and independent contractor issues. Employment Law 101 Resources Employment Law 101_Slide Handout
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Go Daddy Smart Line is a phone app that gives you a second line phone number so you can separate your business and personal texts and calls while carrying just one phone. Some providers are using this app for their business line, which raises the question – is it HIPAA compliant? Even though the app is
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