The 2024 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) final rule, released August 1, contains some good news for hospitals related to potential payment for certain social determinants of health.
Read this Q&A to better understand which telehealth programs were made permanent or temporarily extended for Medicare Part B patients until 2024 under the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023.
Elizabeth Hogue, Esq.,explains why it just got a little harder for the federal government to hold healthcare organizations liable under the False Claims Act.
The Office of Management and Budget recently approved new versions of the Important Message from Medicare, Detailed Notice of Discharge, and Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice.
Determine whether your facility needs to change E/M documentation habits and capture different details based on the revisions made by CMS to observation and inpatient reporting in the 2023 OPPS final rule.
CMS confirmed in the 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rule that it will adopt the framework of the revised AMA E/M guidelines, including payment based on medical decision-making (MDM) or time, effective January 1, 2023. Laura Evans, CPC, explains how the agency will diverge from the AMA on some points, however.
