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Auditing for Compliance and Education, Inc.
Upcoming Seminars and Events:
Personnel from ACE will be attending and speaking at several seminars. For a complete listing of upcoming events, please click here.
Who is Auditing for Compliance and Education, Inc.?
Puzzled by billing regulations?
Spending too much time unraveling Medicare regulations?
Taking the chance that your procedures may not be properly documented and coded?
Auditing for Compliance and Education, Inc. is nationally recognized for its excellence in auditing anesthesia and pain management practices. The government's crusade to uncover and prosecute health care fraud is motivation to bring a successful compliance plan into daily physician activities. ACE will create a realistic plan that will withstand the scrutiny of Medicare auditors.
The ACE compliance process incorporates risk identification, correction and prevention through education and auditing. Our goal is to prevent and detect violations, then report and recommend solutions to potential problems.
ACE will be at the top of your "money well-spent" list when the rep from the Office of the Inspector General knocks on your door.
Contact us today!
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Provide better patient care.
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Manage a successful practice
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Avoid litigation and investigation.
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ACE NEWS |
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ACE posts NEW
Line Placement Form. |
ACE has posted a new Line Placement Form for 2008. You can click here to download it, or you can find it under our Services tab, under Forms in our Resources section. |
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Industry Alerts |
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2008 Physician Fee Schedule: 32 percent increase to anesthesia work! |
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Good news:
- The 2008 Physician Fee Schedule includes a Medicare payment increase for anesthesiology. The historic 32 percent work increase will counterbalance the 10 percent SGR cut set to take affect in 2008 unless Congress intervenes. No other medical specialty will see such a buffer.
- If Congress acts to avert SGR cuts, anesthesiologists will realize the full potential of the Medicare payment increase
What ASA is doing now:
- ASA identified a technical error in the final rule as put on display Nov. 1 and immediately contacted CMS. The error resulted in a substantially lower conversion factor increase than anticipated.
- CMS has acknowledged this error and is in the process of correcting it.
- As soon as ASA receives and confirms the updated Medicare anesthesia conversion factor, we will post the new information to www.asahq.org.
What ASA members must do:
- It is more important than ever that you speak out against looming SGR cuts so that anesthesiologists may experience the conversion factor increase in its entirety.
Call or write your Representative and Senators today:
Your ASA continues working tirelessly so that anesthesiologists are paid fairly under Medicare. We are committed to ensuring that you are well-represented throughout Congress and the Administration, and we will persist in our efforts to implement the full conversion factor increase. However, we must have your help fighting SGR cuts. Please take action today. |
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July 2008 CCI Edits |
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Just a reminder that on July 1, 2008 the next round of quarterly updates to the coding initiatives (CCI Edits) become effective.
Please visit the CMS Website for details. |
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