This week's note from the instructor reviews the inpatient Part A lifetime reserve days and the process for notifying patients when they are about to exhaust their regular benefit days.
This week’s Medicare updates include changes to place of service (POS) codes for telehealth, updated information on the use of the KX modifier for CAR T-Cell therapy, the release of the 2022 Medicare Advantage and Part D star ratings, and more!
This week's note from the instructor looks at how recent OIG audits of neurostimulator implantation payments could provide a framework for internal audit processes.
This week’s Medicare updates include a correction notice for the FY 2022 Inpatient Psychiatric Facility Prospective Payment System final rule, updated COVID-19 FAQs and guidance, an OIG review of Medicare payments for neurostimulator implantation surgeries, and more!
This week's note from the instructor explores the proposed changes to billing for therapy assistant services from the CY 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule.
This week’s Medicare updates include a final decision memo on an NCD for home use of oxygen to treat cluster headaches, a notice about CMS exercising enforcement discretion for certain SNF consolidated billing provisions, an interim final rule on new policies against surprise billing, and more!
This week’s Medicare updates include revisions to guidance on interstate licensing compacts, an OIG review of Medicare Advantage risk adjusted payments, the quarterly update to the ESRD PPS, and more!
This week's note from the instructor reviews recent changes to inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) regulations and discusses how to use them to proactively create audit defense strategies.
This week’s Medicare updates include the Quarterly Provider Compliance Newsletter, a proposed rule on repealing the Medicare Coverage of Innovative Technology and Definition of “Reasonable and Necessary” final rule, October updates for various payment systems, and more!
This week's note from the instructor explores the details of how CMS will establish rural emergency hospitals (REH) and discusses the elements of the Request for Information CMS issued on the topic.
This week’s Medicare updates include an extension to the rulemaking process for a final rule on the adjustment of civil monetary penalties for inflation, the recission of the mid-build exception audit determinations, implementation transmittals for two NCDs, and more!
This week’s Medicare updates include information on Hurricane Ida waivers and support, an updated emergency use authorization for bamlanivimab and etesevimab administered together, an OIG review of actions CMS can take to improve COVID-19 data from nursing homes, and more!
This week's note from the instructor discusses CMS' proposal in the CY 2022 OPPS proposed rule to reverse course on CY 2021 changes to the inpatient-only list and the ambulatory surgical center covered procedures list.
This week’s Medicare updates include an announcement on expanded payments for at-home COVID-19 vaccinations, dates for implementation of the Prior Authorization Model for Repetitive, Scheduled Non-Emergent Ambulance Transports nationwide, an OIG review of phlebotomy travel allowances, and more!
This week's note from the instructor delves into how recent OIG hospital audits can be used as guides for self-monitoring via internal audits and quality reviews.
This week’s Medicare updates include billing and coding updates for COVID-19 booster shots, new items on the OIG Work Plan, a proposed decision memo on an NCD for Transvenous (Catheter) Pulmonary Embolectomy, and more!
This week's Medicare updates include a proposed rule rescinding the Most Favored Nation model, information on payments for COVID-19 vaccine booster shots, an OIG review of chronic care management services, and more!
This week's note from the instructor discusses some of the major provisions and payment updates included in the FY 2022 Inpatient Prospective Payment System Final Rule.
This week’s Medicare updates include the FY 2022 IPPS Final Rule, an updated file of the list of lab tests subject to exceptions from the lab date of service policy, a transmittal for the updated hospice payment rates, and more!
This week’s Medicare updates include the FY 2022 Inpatient Psychiatric Facility Prospective Payment System (PPS) Final Rule, the FY 2022 Skilled Nursing Facility PPS Final Rule, the FY 2022 Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility PPS Final Rule, and more!
This week's note from the instructor weighs the implications of the proposed price transparency penalties from the CY 2022 Outpatient Prospective Payment System proposed rule.
This week’s Medicare updates include the renewal of the COVID-19 public health emergency, the publication of the CY 2022 Outpatient Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule, an emergency use authorization for a new type of COVID-19 monoclonal antibody treatment, and more!
This week’s Medicare updates include the 2022 ESRD PPS Proposed Rule, two OIG advisory opinions, a proposed decision memo for an NCD on home oxygen, and more!
This week's note from the instructor looks at a recent clarification published by CMS on reimbursement for certain provider-based rural health clinics.
This week's note from the instructor looks at a recent clarification published by CMS on reimbursement for certain provider-based rural health clinics.
This week’s Medicare updates include download files for the 2022 ICD-10-CM codes, the July 2021 update of the Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System, revised guidance on emergency preparedness requirements, and more!
This week's note from the instructor discusses coding, documentation, and billing requirements for polysomnography services in light of multiple recent OIG reviews of the topic.
This week’s Medicare updates include billing information for a new monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID-19, additional items on the OIG Work Plan, an MLN fact sheet on billing for cardiac device credits, and more!
This week’s Medicare updates include a download link for the FY 2022 ICD-10-PCS code files, a new edition of the Medicare Quarterly Compliance Newsletter, information on additional payment for the COVID-19 vaccine in the patient’s home, and more!
This week’s Medicare updates include a notice about the resumption of post-payment medical reviews, an OIG review of polysomnography services, a correction notice for the CY 2022 Medicare Advantage Program Policy and Technical Changes final rule, and more!
This week’s Medicare updates include a fact sheet on provider documentation to facilitate collaborative care, an OIG review of CMS payments for end-stage renal disease monthly capitation payments, a new OIG FAQ item on enforcement discretion during the COVID-19 PHE, and more!
This week's note from the instructor reviews the proposed updates to quality reporting programs that were introduced in the FY 2022 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Proposed Rule.
This week's note from the instructor examines the requirements and changes made for the second year of CMS' prior authorization program for certain hospital outpatient department services.
This week’s Medicare updates include changes to the list of codes requiring prior authorization, an advance copy of implementation information for the Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule, a resolution to an edit regarding DRG weights, and more!
This week's note from the instructor reviews the long-term care hospital payment and policy updates introduced in the FY 2022 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Proposed Rule.
This week’s Medicare updates include an extension to the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement model, updates to payments for ambulance services during the PHE, increased payments for monoclonal antibodies, and more!
This week's note from the instructor reviews the inpatient hospital payment and policy updates introduced in the FY 2022 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Proposed Rule.
This week’s Medicare updates include the 2022 IPPS proposed rule, a handful of cost reporting form updates, an MLN Booklet on using the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule look-up tool, and more!
The widespread adoption of electronic medical records and software has made it easier for coders to ensure that all necessary query elements are present. Nonetheless, coders must understand what these elements are.
This week's note from the instructor looks at the implications of a recent OIG brief on how Medicare Advantage organizations could use national provider identifiers (NPI) to monitor for fraud, waste, and abuse.
This week’s Medicare updates include new instructions for COVID-19 monoclonal antibody infusions, an updated list of telehealth services payable under the Physician Fee Schedule, six new items added to the OIG work plan, and more!
This week’s Medicare updates include proposed rules for the inpatient psychiatric facility prospective payment system, skilled nursing facility prospective payment system, and the hospice payment rate update.
This week's note from the instructor explores changes to rural health clinic (RHC) reimbursement as a result of provisions in the Consolidated Appropriations Act.
This week’s Medicare updates include the April update to the ambulatory surgical center payment system, information on COVID-19 Advanced and Accelerated Payment recoupment, an update on an issue with therapy claims, and more!
This week's note from the instructor explores ways the post-acute care transfer rule can lead either to overpayments or underpayments and discusses some actions hospitals can take to ensure accurate payment.
This week’s Medicare updates include claims processing instructions for a revised NCD, an update to the manual pertaining to cardiac/pulmonary rehab, updated information on hospital surveys during the COVID-19 PHE, and more!
This week’s Medicare updates include updated billing requirement information for home infusion therapy services, an implementation delay with additional comment period for the Medicare Coverage of Innovative Technology final rule, updates to rural health clinic payment limits, and more!
This week's note from the instructor reviews the Intravenous Immune Globulin (IVIG) demonstration, which has been extended for an additional three years.
This week’s Medicare updates include the quarterly OPPS and I/OCE update transmittals, new guidance on visitation at nursing homes, revisions to a behavioral health integration services guide, and more!
This week’s Medicare updates include a revised section in the COVID-19 Medicare billing FAQs, a fact sheet on the IVIG demonstration, an updated COVID-19 fraud alert, and more!
This note from the instructor explores the intricacies of the acute and post-acute transfer policy in light of recent OIG audits on hospital compliance with these policies.
This week’s Medicare updates include coding and payment information for the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, an OIG report on trends toward more expensive inpatient hospital stays, an MLN article on billing for services when Medicare is a secondary payer, and more!
This week's note from the instructor looks as how to use E/M risk assessments as part of a strategy to measure the level of compliance with laws, regulations, and internal policies and procedures.
This week’s Medicare updates include new items added to the OIG work plan, a download link for HCPCS codes which are excepted from the lab date of service policy, a new program instruction sheet for monoclonal antibodies used to treat COVID-19, and more!
This week’s Medicare updates include new information on reporting requirements for the Medicare ground ambulance data collection system, an EUA for a new type of monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID-19, details regarding an ESRD claims processing issue, and more!
This week's note from the instructor is the second article in a two-part series focusing on billing processes for alternative ways of delivering basic hospital outpatient services during the COVID-19 PHE.
This week’s Medicare updates include notices on the delay of two final rules, updated provider fact sheets on COVID-19 PHE waivers and flexibilities, a note about payment for HCPCS code G2211, and more!
This week's note from the instructor explores the impact of CMS phasing out the inpatient-only list as finalized in the 2021 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) final rule.
This week’s Medicare updates include a notice about reprocessing certain drug claims that were rejected in error, the latest version of the Medicare beneficiary COVID-19 data snapshot, a table on MAC pricing for COVID-19 testing, and more!
This week’s Medicare updates include FAQs on market-based MS-DRG relative weights, Opioid Treatment Program provider enrollment updates, two new decision memos on NCDs, and more!
This week's note from the instructor focus on billing processes for alternative ways of delivering basic hospital outpatient services during the COVID-19 PHE.
This week’s Medicare updates include the CMS pandemic plan, a final rule on Medicare coverage of innovative technology, a final rule on prior authorization process improvements, and more!
This week’s Medicare updates include payment adjustment information from the Consolidated Appropriations Act, revisions to information in the COVID-19 billing FAQ document, a notice of funding opportunity for development of radiology quality measures, and more!
This week’s Medicare updates include three advisory opinions, billing information for Most Favored Nation model drugs, the January 2021 OPPS update, and more!
This week’s Medicare updates include three new OIG work plan topics, updated payment and coding information for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, the 2021 Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule changes, and more!
This note from the instructor explores recent changes made to local coverage determination (LCD) processes and policies and the beneficial impact of these changes on providers and beneficiaries
This week’s Medicare updates include an infographic on monoclonal antibody coverage, a revision to a Special Edition MLN Matters article on COVID-19 PHE flexibilities for rural health clinics, updated FAQs on billing for services related to COVID-19, and more!
This week's note from the instructor looks at how the 2021 OPPS and Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rules will impact providers next year--and beyond.
This week’s Medicare updates include the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rule, the Outpatient Prospective Payment System final rule, additional guidance on coding and billing for monoclonal antibody treatments for COVID-19, and more!
This week’s Medicare updates include new guidance on hospital expansion opportunities during the COVID-19 pandemic, revised guidance for ambulatory surgical center staffing during the pandemic, an interim final rule on payment for Part B drugs, and more!
This week’s Medicare updates include three new additions to the OIG Work Plan, a new webpage on billing and coding for COVID-19 monoclonal antibody treatment, a transmittal on the implementation of two new NUBC condition codes, and more!
This week's note from the instructor addresses the billing, coding, and payment instructions Medicare recently released for potential COVID-19 vaccines and new antibody treatments.
This week’s Medicare updates include the implementation of the ESRD Prospective Payment System changes for CY 2021, instructions on billing and coding for a new COVID-19 monoclonal antibody treatment, an update to edits for vaccine services, and more!
This week's note from the instructor discusses a new OIG review of CMS payments for device credits in light of an apparent conflict between regulatory text and manual guidance.
This week’s Medicare updates include the End Stage Renal Disease Prospective Payment System final rule, an update to home health provisions in the Benefit Policy Manual to implement elements of the CARES Act, an OIG report on device credits, and more!
This week's note from the instructor discusses the latest interim final rule with comment (IFC) and its provisions concern vaccines, payments for new COVID-19 treatments, and more.
This week’s Medicare updates include a new interim final rule on COVID-19 vaccination and payment policies, Part II of the CY 2022 Medicare Advantage and Part D Advance Notice, a proposed rule on DMEPOS coverage policies and fee schedule methodologies, and more!
This week's note from the instructor reviews types of risk areas that should be continuously monitored by compliance officers, as they are frequent targets for OIG reviews.
This week’s Medicare updates include the latest edition of the Medicare Quarterly Provider Compliance Newsletter, two new proposed decision memos on coverage for blood-based biomarker tests and a molecular expression test, updated information in the COVID-19 billing FAQs, and more!
This week's note from the instructor focuses on new Medicare guidance on and updated payment policies for COVID-19 testing, vaccines, and telehealth services.
This week’s Medicare updates include new payment incentives for COVID-19 testing, the addition of 11 services to the telehealth list, updated data on the impact of COVID-19 on Medicare beneficiaries, and more!
This week's note from the instructor discusses a new edit in the October release of the IOCE which might unveil exclusion issues within certain software systems.
This week’s Medicare updates include the re-release of the October 2020 I/OCE quarterly data files, details on new COVID-19 reporting requirements for hospitals and critical access hospitals, and information on repayments for loans issued under the Accelerated and Advance Payment program at the beginning of the PHE.
This week’s Medicare updates include a new website devoted to price transparency, clarifications on guidance related to emergency preparedness requirements, updated COVID-19 blanket waivers for teaching hospitals, and more!
