This week’s Medicare updates include the latest Medicare Quarterly Provider Compliance Newsletter, a proposed decision memorandum for hyperbaric oxygen therapy NCA, new interest rates for Medicare overpayments and underpayments for Q2 2017, and more!
This week’s Medicare updates include corrections to the OPPS, ESRD, and 2017 Physician Fee Schedule final rules, a renewal of the Advisory Panel on Hospital Outpatient Payment and Solicitation of Nominations to the Advisory Panel on Hospital Outpatient Payment, and more!
Managers should not assume that they can review every guideline, every item in Coding Clinic, or every coding-related issue targeted by the Office of Inspector General or Recovery Auditor.
One area of CPT coding that saw big changes for 2017 is for dialysis circuit coding. The existing codes have all been deleted, and new codes have been created (36901-36909) for reporting these procedures.
