Sep 21, 2021 | Medicare, Physician Fee Schedule
Recent developments in allergy, ENT, and audiology include mostly positive Medicare FFS reimbursement trends, stable Medicare spending, and increased commercial payer focus on the frequency of allergy testing and high cost specialty drugs administered in the office. Click to read more.
Sep 17, 2021 | Managed Care Friday
24601: Les Miserable fans know this number too well as the mark symbolizing Jean Valjean’s bread stealing moment during the end of the French Revolution, and in a symbolic way this is exactly the number a Medicaid managed care plan’s medical director is advocating the insurer pay per beneficiary per year (well, $24,600 to be exact, but what’s an extra dollar for effect?) to cover housing, health and wellness, transportation, job support and food as part of a social family support concept targeting underserved, typically refugee, populations. Dose E Doh! Several insurers are looking to reduce...
