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• Office FAQ: Billing for Anticoagulation Management
  What is the appropriate way to bill Medicare for outpatient anticoagulation management services?
• Office FAQ: Sales and Use Tax
  If our practice purchases transcription services and are not charged sales tax, are we obligated to report and remit the amount as use tax to the commonwealth?
• Office FAQ: Medicaid Managed Care Plans
  A provider who participates in the Medicaid Fee-for-Service program has provided a service to a patient enrolled in a Medicaid managed care plan with which the provider does not participate. Can the provider bill the patient for the service?
• Office FAQ: Access Plus Pay-for-Performance Reporting
  Will there be a standard form for physicians to fill out for Access Plus Pay-for-Performance measures?
• Office FAQ: 2008 PQRI Measures
  Will a practice be able to continue with the same selected PQRI measures in 2008? When will we know the 2008 measures?
• Office FAQ: Professional Liability Requirements for CRNPs and PAs
  What are the professional liability requirements for certified registered nurse practitioners (CRNP) and physician assistants (PA)?
• Office FAQ: Retaining Financial Records
  How long should I keep a patient's financial records?
• Office FAQ: Non-custodial Parent's Request for Child's Medical Records
  How should I handle a non-custodial parent's request for copies of her child's medical records when the custodial parent has asked our office not to fulfill the request?
• Office FAQ: Request for Medical Records
  May I refuse to transfer or give copies of a medical record for a patient with an outstanding balance for medical services?
• Office FAQ: Being Dropped from Medicare Due to Inactivity
  Is it possible for a physician to be dropped from Medicare due to inactivity?
• Office FAQ: Terminate A Patient-Physician Relationship
  What legal steps must a physician follow to terminate a patient-physician relationship?
• Office FAQ: Withholding Patient Lists
  Can a group practice withhold patient lists from a departing physician?
• Office FAQ: Help with Administrative Hassles
  How can the State Society’s Practice Economics and Payer Relations department help me?
• Office FAQ: Verification Forms for Medicare Advantage Patients
  Must our practice comply with a request from an insurer for certain medical diagnoses for Medicare Advantage (MA) patients, requiring us to fill out a “member condition verification form”?
• Office FAQ: Patient Requests for Medical Records
  When a patient requests her medical records be transferred or copied, must our practice include the entire record, or just the records for the care our practice provided?
• Office FAQ: Medicare Part D
  A lot of our patients need one-on-one help choosing a Part D prescription drug plan. Where can I get information for physicians, and where can I refer patients for help?
• Office FAQ: Medicare Advantage Plans
  Some Medicare patients are now coming in for appointments with their new Medicare Advantage plan information. We have decided not to participate with several of these new plans but are being told, since we participate with Medicare, we are required to participate in Medicare Advantage. Is this true?
• Office FAQ: Downcoding Procedure Codes
  We’ve noticed that, at times, insurers will change procedure codes on a claim we submit to them. This appears to be the practice of downcoding. Are they legally allowed to do this?
• Office FAQ: License Renewal
  What should I know about renewing my MD/DO license this year?
• Office FAQ: Billing for No Shows
  May a physician bill a patient for a “no show” appointment?

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