A picture is worth a thousand words in all facets of life. But the value of images in the field of medicine is immeasurable. Until very recently, there hasn’t been a satisfactory way of organizing, annotating, saving, and sharing medical images across the profession.
Doctors who don’t pay attention to their OMA agreements were probably very surprised to see a .5% reduction to their May 2013 RA OHIP payments.
Often, physicians don’t realize that mistakes in their billing can often have important consequences for other doctors’ claims. The misuse of telephone consultations is an example of this.
About a year ago, the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care announced several fee reductions and eliminations. One of the codes eliminated was the C101 code which is a $9.10 premium for any assessments and consultations in the ICU. …
Phone consultations are to be used when one physician requests the opinion of another physician who has expertise in the area. There are different kinds for different medical settings, and Criticall as well as regular phone consults.
For a variety of reasons, claims sent to OHIP can be rejected or denied. In the second part of this series we’ll look at claims that get rejected on the Remittance Advice report. The last blog post in this series …
For a variety of reasons, claims sent to OHIP can be rejected or denied. Over the next few blog entries, we’ll address the common reasons for this and what physicians can do to limit these rejections. In the first part …
Our physicians frequently have questions about how OHIP’s cut-off for claims submission works, and this blog post addresses that issue. Back in the day of paper claims and diskette submissions, OHIP needed several days to run each physician’s diskette through …