Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

Practice size does not matter when dealing with compliance -- even solo practitioners need to stay on the straight and narrow. Even small practices have to stay compliant with government regulations -- and although this sounds like a simple fact, it's one that many Part B providers may overlook. Ensuring physician practice compliance can be a complex path, and many practices think of it is something that large hospitals should focus on -- after all, those are the entities that get all of the media exposure when they violate compliance rules. But every practice is responsible for compliance, no matter how big or small. Doctors take note in some cases, small practices think compliance rules don't affect them -- but also don't realize they're at risk of being noncompliant. Example: "I met with a solo practitioner a few years ago who hired me as a consultant," says Laura E. Hill, CPC, CPC-I, an Arizona-based [...]