Category: Business Forms and Templates

Health Care Liens

by ICS Staff | Jun 3, 2020 | Billing and Collections, Business Forms and Templates, Featured, Frequently Asked Questions | 0 |

A lien is a legal claim against specific property. A health care lien is a claim against monetary proceeds in an injury case. The Illinois health care lien law refers to individual health care licensees as “health care professionals” and to facility health care licensees as “health care providers.” The law allows health care professionals, such as physicians and other health care professionals, and health care providers such as hospitals, to assert liens for service billings against personal injury monies to be paid to the patient by a negligent party.

Illinois healthCare Lien Calculator

by ICS Staff | Jun 2, 2020 | Billing and Collections, Business Forms and Templates, Documentation, Practice Management | 0 |

ICS Members can access this lien calculator.

Medicare Provides Guidance on Expiring ABN Form

by ICS Staff | Mar 25, 2020 | Business Forms and Templates, Compliance, Documentation, Practice Management | 0 |

The ABN form is set to expire at the end of March. However, CMS is now providing information on the expiration and how providers can proceed.

Child Abuse Reporting Alert: NEW REQUIREMENT FOR PHYSICIAN TRAINING

by Adrienne Hersh, JD, ICS Legal Counsel | Mar 11, 2020 | Business Forms and Templates, Compliance, Documentation, ICS Message, Legal, Personal Development, Practice Management | 0 |

Illinois licensed physicians are included in a list of “mandated reporters” who must notify the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) when they have reasonable cause to believe that a child may be abused or neglected. All mandated reporters, including physicians, must now complete DCFS mandated reporter training under a recent amendment to the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act, effective January 1, 2020.[i]

Home Study – ICS CME Quiz Program

by ICS Staff | Nov 11, 2019 | Business Forms and Templates, Personal Development, Practice Management | 0 |

Category 1 hours may be obtained each year, by downloading and completing quizzes for the JMPT, JACA, ICS Practice Edge publications. All quizzes must be completed within one year of publication.