This week’s updates include a transmittal regarding completing and processing Form CMS-1500 Data Set; a transmittal from Provider Reimbursement Manual, Part 1–Chapter 31 on Organ Acquisition Payment Policy; and more!
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.
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!
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.