This week’s updates include clarification to home health benefit billing instructions and a special fraud alert regarding laboratory payments. Click the link above to read more about this week’s updates.
Q: The hospital where I work entered into a business associate agreement (BAA) that requires the business associate (BA) to notify us of a potential breach no more than 60 days after it is discovered.
Changes may be afoot for the 2-midnight rule. CMS' 2015 inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) proposed rule seeks opinions about an alternate payment for short hospital stays.