This week’s Medicare updates include a decision memo for an ambulatory blood pressure monitoring NCD, another extension of enforcement discretion for the laboratory date of service exception policy, a fact sheet on proper billing processes for DMEPOS items delivered to inpatients, and more!
Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, Maryland, will pay $3,154,000 to settle allegations that it submitted false claims to Medicare for medically unnecessary evaluation and management services and separately billing bundled procedures
CMS recently announced a new category of payment programs: the Primary Cares Initiative. Within a few years, CMS expects 25% of primary care providers to join one of the five voluntary payment models.
Q: Our utilization review (UR) committee originally took a more strictly peer review role but over time its scope and responsibilities have broadened. We're not sure that it still makes sense for the UR committee to be categorized as a subcommittee of the medical staff. What is the current recommended reporting structure for a UR committee?
