The 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) proposed rule includes significant policy updates affecting physician coding and billing. Review proposals to decrease to the Medicare conversion factor, revise guidelines for critical care services, and loosen telehealth coverage requirements.
Read up on ICD-10-CM code updates for fiscal year 2022, including new codes for post-COVID-19 symptoms, social determinants of health, and poisonings by cannabis and synthetic cannabinoids.
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!
Less than a year after CMS finalized the three-year phaseout of the inpatient-only (IPO) list to be completed by 2024, the agency is looking to reverse course, according to the 2022 OPPS proposed rule, released Monday, July 19.
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!
Case managers need to prepare for a post-public health emergency world by understanding how to continue to work with and transition patients with COVID-19.
