This week’s Medicare updates include two rules on price transparency, updates to medical review requirements for SNFs, annual updates to the therapy code list, and more!
Medicare overpaid providers $640,452 for chronic care management (CCM) services and may have overpaid outpatient facilities an additional $1.2 million for CCM, according to an Office of Inspector General (OIG) report released November 7.
This week’s Medicare updates include a fact sheet on HIPAA privacy requirements, enrollment information for opioid treatment programs, implementation of end-stage renal disease payment rate updates, and more!
Along with its annual updates to the inpatient-only list, the 2020 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) final rule finalized a proposal that will give hospitals a grace period to adjust internal policies for procedures recently removed from the inpatient-only list.