This week’s Medicare updates include the 2022 End-Stage Renal Disease Prospective Payment System Final Rule, a final decision memo on an NCD for transvenous (catheter) pulmonary embolectomy, a notice about provider enrollment application fees, and more!
A case manager learns that a soon-to-be discharged patient’s electricity has been turned off for nonpayment and makes arrangements to have the bill paid and power restored. While this is clearly important to the patient’s health, it is also an example of how case managers may be unintentionally violating the law.
Interventions to reduce length of stay for high-risk, medically complex, and otherwise vulnerable patients are falling short, according to a technical brief prepared for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
It’s almost a new year. And for HIPAA security officers, that means it’s time to reflect on the year that was and also look forward to the next 12 months. One way to do that is to sharpen their toolkit of skills and traits.
CMS recently released an interim final rule called Requirements Related to Surprise Billing; Part II, which builds on the No Surprises Act. It aims to prevent patients from shouldering the financial burden related to unexpected out-of-network costs.
This week’s Medicare updates include the renewal of the COVID-19 PHE, the correction notice for the FY 2022 IPPS final rule, information on billing and coding for COVID-19 booster shots, and more!
