This week’s Medicare updates include the July 2022 update to the Outpatient Prospective Payment System, the withdrawal of the SUNSET final rule, an updated memo on reporting COVID-19 data for hospitals and critical access hospitals, and more!
OCR released a report on audits it conducted. It found that most CEs failed to meet the requirements for selected provisions in the audit. One of the first steps to improving is learning more about audits and assessments, which are trouble spots for entities.
Modifier -JW is used to describe drug amounts that are discarded and not administered to any patient. Refresh your knowledge of this modifier with coding tips and example scenarios.
This week’s Medicare updates include new items added to the OIG Work Plan, an announcement about a redesign of the Medicare.gov website, a revised transmittal regarding changes to certain NCDs, and more!
This week’s Medicare updates include a proposed decision memo modifying an NCD on home use of oxygen, an OIG report on adverse events in hospitals, the quarterly update to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule database, and more!
As part of our continuing series, BOH caught up with Rebecca Herold, CDPSE, FIP, CISSP, CIPM, CIPP/US, CIPT, CISM, CISA, FLMI, to ask the privacy expert HIPAA compliance questions.
