News & Analysis

April 24, 2019
Medicare Insider

This week’s Medicare updates include proposed rules for the inpatient rehabilitation facility, inpatient psychiatric facility, and skilled nursing facility payment systems; a proposed rule on the 2020 hospice payment rate update; a draft of new guidance on ligature risks; and more! 

April 17, 2019
Medicare Insider

This week’s Medicare updates include a final rule introducing new benefits for Medicare Advantage, details on a nationwide Medicare brace scam, a proposed decision memo for ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, and more!  

April 15, 2019
News & Insights

Provider participation in the BPCI Advanced program fell by 16% between October 1, 2018, and March 1, 2019, at the initiation of the risk-bearing phase of the voluntary payment program. Overall participation includes nearly 1,300 providers still participating, according to CMS.

April 10, 2019
Medicare Insider

This week’s Medicare updates include the Medicare Advantage and Part D rate announcement and final call letter, a fact sheet on the Preclusion List, updates to provider self-disclosure settlements, and more! 

April 3, 2019
Medicare Insider

This week’s Medicare updates include a proposed decision memo for transcatheter aortic valve replacements, clarification on a transmittal regarding evaluation and management coding, an article on edits for OPPS providers with multiple service locations, and more!

March 27, 2019
Medicare Insider

This week’s Medicare updates include a transmittal on billing for hospital Part B inpatient services, a quarterly update to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule database, the April 2019 update of the Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System, and more! 

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