This week’s Medicare updates include an FAQ on the new price transparency rule for 2019, an update to the Medicare Benefit Policy Manual to include new payment policies for rural health clinics, a fact sheet on the Value-Based Purchasing Program for FY 2019, and more!
Q: If a patient participating in a clinical trial is allergic to one of the drugs used in the trial, how do we report the drug that is used as a substitute?
This week’s Medicare updates include a proposed rule regarding changes to the Medicare Advantage program regulations and Prescription Drug Benefit program, a review of hospital wage data to determine vulnerabilities in the hospital wage index system, the Fall 2018 semiannual report to Congress, and more!
Along with E/M changes for 2019 and beyond, the 2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rule contains a plethora of regulations impacting reimbursement, including new modifiers for therapists.