Healthicity Blog

You’re not alone. According to Pies Steel, a human resources professor at University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business, 95% of the population procrastinates and 20% are “chronic offenders.”

Annually, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) publishes its Fee-For-Service (FFS) Improper Payment Report, a result of the accumulated totals of the Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) audits.

The long days of reviewing stacks of paperwork on your desk are finally over. But, spreadsheet tools like Microsoft Excel are terrible for healthcare.

We received a lot of great questions during our Conflicts of Interest Webinar.

A few years ago, a provider called me for help. He was being audited and the payer had told him that he owed 100K in overpaid claims. We did a review and immediately saw the problem. He did, in fact, owe the money to the insurance company.

Auditing is hard work and requires a special kind of personality and superhuman attention to detail.

On July 30, 1965, President Johnson signed the Social Security Amendments which established Medicare and Medicaid,

The thing about working in the healthcare industry is that it’s impossible to know enough. Policies, laws, technology, and culture are constantly changing.