News & Analysis

July 12, 2016
News & Insights

My understanding is that under the 2-midnight rule CAHs cannot go past two midnights of observation care if the patient has Medicare as a payer. Is that correct?

July 8, 2016
News & Insights

My understanding is that under the 2-midnight rule CAHs cannot go past two midnights of observation care if the patient has Medicare as a payer. Is that correct?

July 8, 2016
News & Insights

CMS proposes aligning its conditional packaging modifiers and deleting a much-maligned modifier for separately payable laboratory tests in the 2017 OPPS proposed rule, released July 6. 

July 7, 2016
News & Insights

CMS is looking to implement the Section 603 provisions of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 regarding off-campus, provider-based departments by January 1, 2017, according to the 2017 OPPS proposed rule, released yesterday. 

July 6, 2016
Medicare Insider

The following is an excerpt from Inpatient-Only Procedures Training Handbook, written by Debbie Mackaman, RHIA, CPCO, CCDS. For more information and to purchase, visit the HCPro Marketplace.

July 1, 2016
Briefings on APCs

Congressional legislation is often written in a way that obfuscates or, at the very least, makes it difficult to discern the impact or intent of a bill.

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