Welter Healthcare Partners is pleased to announce that our brand new website is launched and LIVE!! nnThat's right, you can head over to WHPelter.com right now to explore our new, and polished website! This is a massive step forward for Welter Healthcare Partners. A...

This serves as a reminder that the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) has designated April 30, 2017 as the expiration date for all physician medical licenses. Therefore, if Centura hospitals are unable to verify that your license has been renewed, your...

March 30th marks the annual observation of National Doctors Day. nnThis day was established to recognize physicians, their work and their contributions to society and the community. On National Doctors Day, we say “thank you” to our physicians for all that they do for...

We are done right? We made it, we are ok… keep rolling on… NOT so fast!nnICD-10 is key to a lot of the new regulations that are rolling out—MIPS and MACRA being great examples. As always it is all about documentation of services. ICD-10 has a lot more granularity,...

A recent survey conducted by AMA reveals that practices are reporting an average of 37 prior authorization requests each week, eating up an average of 16 hours of both physician and staff time. Check out the article, below, by Health Leaders Media, outlining the...

Former Aetna CEO claims Obamacare is flawed, read more below about what former Aetna CEO Ronald William's has to say about Obamacare. nnSince the Affordable Care Act became law in 2010, making the math work has been a real challenge. For Obamacare to be sustainable,...

nnAnthem CEO Joseph R. Swedish appeals the federal judge's decision to merge with Cigna and claimed merger would save consumers $2 billion in medical costs. Read more about the Anthems appeal below.nnAnthem CEO Joseph R. Swedish said he was "significantly...

The proposed merger of Aetna Inc. and Humana Inc. was blocked by a United States Federal Judge earlier this week. Read more about this in the article below. nnA U.S. judge blocked on Monday health insurer Aetna Inc's proposed $34 billion acquisition of smaller peer...

The Affordable Care Act (Obama Care) looks to be the first target of a Republican dominated House, Senate and President!nnMuch in the ACA is entangled in the current tax code. It will not be as simple as defunding it. The employer and individual mandates, the premium...

Tom Price’s Vision – Commercial & Individualnn Encourage Private Exchanges for purchase of individualized products across state linesn Create federal Grants for States to create high-risk poolsn Eliminate individual Mandaten Comprehensive Medical Liability Reform...

Written By: Toni Elhoms, CCS, CPC, AHIMA-Approved ICD-10-CM/PCS Trainern Director of Coding/Compliance Consulting ServicesnnIt’s that time of the year again! The new 2017 CPT code changes take effect January 1st. Understanding the myriad of upcoming changes is crucial...

Moderate sedation services have historically always been bundled into the majority of all applicable CPT procedures. More than 400 codes that were previously defined as including moderate sedation have been deleted from Appendix G. In addition to six new CPT codes and...