Alabama Medicaid Eliminates Prior Authorization for Major Scans and Heart Procedures: What Billers Need to Know
If you work in healthcare revenue cycle management, you already know that prior authorizations (PAs) are one of the biggest bottlenecks to both patient care and consistent cash flow. Fortunately, providers dealing with Alabama Medicaid are about to get some much-needed administrative relief. In a recent provider alert published on October 14, 2026, the Alabama […]
ICD-10-CM Update 2027 (FY 2027): What Changed and What Texas Practices Should Do Now
October 1 has come and gone, and if your billing team has been quiet this month, good. If it hasn’t, you probably already know why. A cardiology claim bounces because the template still carries I42.0. A podiatry note says “plantar fasciitis” and nobody is sure which of three new codes applies. That’s the FY 2027 […]
CMS Proposes Sweeping RPM & RTM Billing and Staffing Changes for 2027
Dallas, TX — Remote patient monitoring (RPM) and remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM) programs are facing their biggest regulatory shake-up in years. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its Calendar Year 2027 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed rule, and if it’s finalized as written, practices across the country will need to rethink how […]