CY 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: What Interventional Radiologists Actually Won — and What Still Hurts
Section analysis by Elina Sabilova, CPC, CFPC, CPMA — Billing Department, WCH Service Bureau EDITOR’S NOTE: The CY 2026 MPFS…
The CMS ACCESS Model: What Every Primary Care Physician Needs to Know Before July 2026
Section analysis by Lilit Muradyan, Billing Department, WCH EDITOR’S NOTE — Why This Matters Now The ACCESS model launches July 1, 2026.…
MIPS Exceptions, the GI MVP, and What June 2026 Deadlines Actually Mean for GI Practices
Section analysis by Oksana Pokoyeva, COC, CPC, CPCO, CPC-P, CPMA, CUC, Billing Department, WCH EDITOR’S NOTE: CMS is currently accepting…
The Ambulatory Specialty Model: What General Cardiologists Need to Understand Before January 2027
Section analysis by Tatiana Kantor, CFPC, CPB, Billing Department, WCH EDITOR’S NOTE: CMS finalized the Ambulatory Specialty Model (ASM) as…
She Wrote the Compliance Book. Then She Ran a $136M Fraud Scheme.
There is a sentence in the DOJ’s press release about Jean Wilson that deserves to be read twice. After her…
$5.7 Trillion and Climbing: What America’s Health Spending Surge Actually Signals
The number itself is almost too large to process. U.S. healthcare spending reached $5.7 trillion in 2025 — a 7.3%…
Nurses Gain ‘Professional’ Status for Federal Loans: What It Means for Healthcare Providers
By Elizaveta Bannova, Billing Department, WCH A federal court stepped in one week before new lending rules would have dramatically…
The OIG Is Back — And Their Math Doesn’t Add Up
By Elizaveta Bannova, Billing Department, WCH If you were hoping the OIG’s audit activity would stay quiet through the summer,…
When Your Provider Is Abroad: The Hidden Compliance Trap in Cross-Border Telehealth
By Elena Pak, Credentialing Department, WCH Telehealth has made geography feel irrelevant. A physician in Portugal, a therapist in Thailand,…