The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015, requires us to remove Social Security Numbers (SSNs) from all Medicare cards by April 2019. A new Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI) will replace the SSN-based Health Insurance Claim Number (HICN) on the new Medicare cards for Medicare transactions like billing, eligibility status, and claim status. The […]
Savannah, GA – February 16, 2018 Healthpac has announced that Allzone Management Services, Inc., an industry leader in Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management Outsourcing Solutions, will be one of the Silver Sponsors for Annual Healthpac User’s Meeting 2018 . Allzone Management Services, Inc., is pleased to announce that they will be exhibiting at the Healthpac User’s […]
Providers with claim denial challenges that are part of the growing Medicare appeals backlog can receive 62 percent of the billed amount under a new low volume appeals settlement from CMS. February 07, 2018 – In the face of a growing Medicare appeals backlog, CMS opened the first round of a low volume appeals settlement […]
Even as recently as five years ago, the revenue cycle outsourcing process took on a very different form to that of today. For years, most organizations saw the revenue cycle as little more than a cost center – meaning that revenue cycle outsourcing was a decision made largely from an administrative perspective. It was seen […]
2018 brings us new functional endoscopic sinus surgery codes (FESS) which bundle a total ethmoidectomy with both a frontal sinusotomy and a sphenoidotomy with and without removal of tissue. 2018 CPT® also provides a new bundled code for a frontal and sphenoid endoscopic balloon dilation. On initial review of these new codes and the instructions […]




