Accurate clinical documentation is the bedrock of the legal medical record, billing, and coding. It is also the most complex and vulnerable part of the revenue cycle.
This week’s Medicare updates include the elimination of routine reviews including documentation compliance reviews and instituting three medical reviews; new guidance for outpatient facility claims; standardization of demand letter language; and more!
With value-based reimbursement, providers now must shoulder the health of the patient no matter where the patient receives care. The ability to share patient information seamlessly between these entities using interoperable technology is the next evolution of healthcare.
This week’s Medicare updates include the July 2017 update to the Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System; the Spring 2017 Semiannual Report to Congress; a new Targeted Probe and Educate Pilot; and more!
CMS issued SE1609 to clarify long-standing policy concerning external infusion pumps. Apparently, both freestanding physician offices and outpatient hospital departments were treating external pumps as an item of durable medical equipment, even when the physician or hospital department set up the pump on the patient, supplied the drug, and programmed the infusion rate and dose into the pump.
