Insurance

Last week Illinois Senator Doris Turner sent an urgent communication to the Illinois Department of Insurance (DOI) regarding her concerns about Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois (BCBSIL)’s inadequate health plans being offered for 2023.

If your medical office treats patients who have Medicaid insurance, be sure to relay this important message: They are at risk of losing their health insurance if they do not update their mailing address with the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS).

CMS is establishing a permanent separate coding and payment for longer virtual check-in services. The new code will be used to describe 11 to 20 minutes of medical discussion when the patient health issue may not necessarily require a visit, but assessing the needs of the patient may take additional time.

CMS will apply the MIPS automatic extreme and uncontrollable circumstances (EUC) policy to all individual MIPS physicians for the 2021 performance year.