Blog: The Doctor's Advocate?

Keep DHHS Permanently Open for Public Comment

POSTED ON January 10, 2012, 3:33 PM | Blog: The Doctor's Advocate?

While I greatly appreciate this opportunity to submit my comments, it is unfortunate that most providers did not know that the opportunity was available to them. It was also extremely unfortunate that the comment submission deadline was set so close to the major holiday season for the United States.Please comply with President Obama’s Executive Order [...]

The Following Recommendation was published in the December 2011 edition of EP Lab Digest

POSTED ON January 10, 2012, 3:32 PM | Blog: The Doctor's Advocate?

www.EPLabDigest.Com Wasteful Medicare Spending, Abusive Medicare Policies, and a Call to Arms Jim Collins, CPC, CCC, President, CardiologyCoder.Com, Inc. December 23rd is the deadline to make recommendations directly to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regarding which Medicare regulations and policies should be eliminated or revised to remove administrative burden and improve the [...]

Postpone ICD-10

POSTED ON January 10, 2012, 3:22 PM | Blog: The Doctor's Advocate?

Postpone the requirement to convert to ICD-10 for at least five years. ICD-10 conversion will be very expensive for the entire healthcare system and it will be a tremendous administrative burden. ICD-10 would require physicians to spend more time classifying the patient’s condition, less time taking care of patients. It will not improve patient care [...]

Remove Medicare Administrative Contractor Discretion

POSTED ON January 10, 2012, 3:21 PM | Blog: The Doctor's Advocate?

Medicare Administrative Contractors currently have discretion to create Limited Coverage Determinations (LCDs). As their name implies, these policies limit coverage for services at the level of the contractor. This creates large coverage discrepancies from state-to-state and it produces a tremendous amount of administrative burden for organizations operating in multiple MAC jurisdictions. Medicare coverage should exclusively [...]

Terminate the Recovery Audit Contractor Initiative

POSTED ON January 10, 2012, 3:21 PM | Blog: The Doctor's Advocate?

Auditors should be unbiased – not incentivized to find errors with what they are auditing. The RAC initiative is comparable to paying IRS auditors exclusively based on how much additional tax revenue they can bring in. It is not fair, the audit process is generating a tremendous amount of administrative burden, and the potential for [...]

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