News & Analysis

April 6, 2016
Medicare Insider

This week’s updates include reporting principal and interest amounts when refunding previously recouped money on the Remittance Advice; Changes to the laboratory NCD edit software for July 2016; and more!

April 6, 2016
Medicare Insider

This week Medicare Insider is featuring an excerpt from Patient Status Training Toolkit for Utilization Review by Kimberly Anderwood Hoy Baker, JD, regulatory specialist for HCPro.  

April 1, 2016
Briefings on APCs

The new modifier -PO (services, procedures, and/or surgeries furnished at off-campus provider-based outpatient departments [PBD]) and the alternative payment provisions under the Bipartisan Budget Act Section 603 are both related to off-campus PBDs but define "off-campus PBD" slightly differently.

March 29, 2016
Medicare Insider

This week’s updates include new waived tests; guidance to surveyors in conducting exit conferences; and more!

March 16, 2016
Medicare Insider

This week’s note is about certification requirements for swing beds in critical access hospitals.

January 27, 2016
Medicare Insider

This week’s updates include a technology assessment regarding treatment of degenerative joint disease with hyaluronic acid; a final notice of modification and termination of OIG Advisory Opinion 08-17; and more!

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