This week’s Medicare updates include two new advisory opinions; updates to the Physician Compare, Long-Term Care Hospital Compare, and Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Compare websites; a republished version of the OPPS final rule to include a previously omitted section, and more!
Most physicians are familiar with the MIPS quality models: These are the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) measures that we’ve been reporting for years with the old Medicare value-based purchasing program. What we don’t know much about are the new cost efficiency models in MIPS, which are based solely on hospital and physician ICD-10-CM/CPT claims data rather than a clinical abstraction of our medical records.
Documentation and coding based on time requires knowledge about the general principles of E/M documentation, common sets of codes used to bill for E/M services, and E/M services providers.
This week’s Medicare updates include an extension for S-10 worksheet submission, implementation plans for computed radiography payment reductions, a new national coverage article for a genetic sequencing diagnostic test for cancer patients, and more!
OCR’s 2016 guidance on patient access opened up a debate in the industry and brought questions about fulfilling patient access requests to the foreground.
