Healthicity Blog

One of the most difficult jobs as an auditor isn’t keeping up with the constant changes in healthcare or trying to remember all the rules for the different Medicare carriers. It’s sitting down with a provider to discuss their audit results.

Understanding incident-to can be stressful. According to an MLN Matters article, number SE0441, “To qualify as “incident to,” services must be part of your patient’s normal course of treatment

My latest Compliance Conversations episode is called “The Teaching Physicians Rule: A Blessing or a Curse.”

Great, You’re a Perfectionist. Now What?

I’ve been auditing for almost thirty years. In that time, I’ve learned that auditors are typically extremely detail oriented, which is fantastic.

Training practitioners to better document their visits seems to spark frustration like nothing else among auditors, so much so that auditing forums are full of auditors asking for tips and tricks of the trade.

A few months ago we conducted a survey of over 1,000 healthcare professionals (chances are you’re one of them).

Over 1,000 coding, auditing, compliance and healthcare executives contributed to our 2018 Compliance and Auditing Benchmark report.

In this episode of compliance conversations, I sat down with Stephani Scott, VP of Audit Services for Healthicity, to chat about her twenty years of experience and pick her brain on important auditing issues.