The Office of Inspector General (OIG) Work Plan for Fiscal Year 2017 provides useful guidance for healthcare providers and payers to monitor their claims for potential fraud and quality of care concerns. The Work Plan (at https://oig.hhs.gov/reports-and-publications/workplan/) details areas where OIG will focus their review efforts by type of provider.

Context 4 Healthcare, Inc., a leading provider of healthcare compliance and pricing solutions, announces today the implementation of the Skilled Nursing Facility Medicare Prospective Payment System (PPS) as the latest addition to Context’s DecisionPoint Pricing System™. This latest addition further expands the DecisionPoint Pricing System, the first solution in the healthcare industry to provide automated, real-time access to accurate Medicare fees for pricing healthcare claims duri ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has established 2 new HCPCS modifiers that will affect reimbursement rates for the year 2017. The first new HCPCS modifier is FX, which is X-ray taken using film. The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016 (Section 502(a)(1)) Medicare Payment Incentive for the Transition from Traditional X-Ray Imaging to Digital Radiography and Other Medicare Imaging Payment Provision amends the Social Security Act by reducing the payment amounts under th ...

Context 4 Healthcare, Inc . , a leading provider of healthcare compliance and pricing solutions, announces today the implementation of the End Stage Renal Disease Medicare Prospective Payment System (PPS) as the latest addition to Context’s DecisionPoint Pricing System™. The DecisionPoint Pricing System is the first solution in the healthcare industry to provide automated, real-time access to accurate Medicare fees for pricing healthcare claims during adjudication. When health plan ...

Context 4 Healthcare will showcase its Dental UCR solution as an exhibitor at the National Association of Dental Plans ( NADP ) Converge 2014 conference, taking place September 15 – 18, 2014 near Orlando, FL. NADP’s Converge 2014 conference will bring together the leading experts, panelists, and vendor resources within the dental benefits industry. Although this is the first year Context has been included as a vendor at the NADP Converge conference, the year 2014 marks the 15 th yea ...