No Surprises Act: Demystifying Good Faith Estimates

The No Surprises Act provisions require that uninsured/self-pay good faith estimates include the primary service and an associated list of line item “expected charges.” Join Panacea’s finance experts as they cover best practices for identifying and listing all expected charges for each item and service furnished during an encounter, as well as best approaches for constructing an all-inclusive uninsured/self-pay good faith estimate, in this complimentary on-demand webinar.

Evaluation and Management 2023 Updates: What You Need to Know

Changes to 2023 E/M coding will impact CDM files, coding, documentation, charge capture processes, and various information systems. This article outlines new revisions to E/M codes for 2023 and addresses several questions we believe professionals will encounter when they learn of the changes.

How to Rationalize Chargemaster Prices

Have you ever wondered how hospital prices became so irrational? As is often the case, things changed incrementally. Hospitals and healthcare systems have experienced years of inadequate inflationary update factors, often reduced by factors such as presumed over-coding under the federal inpatient and outpatient prospective payment systems.