News & Analysis

February 5, 2020
Medicare Insider

This week’s Medicare updates include a final decision memo on an NCD for next generation sequencing tests, an update to manual guidance on prior authorization, a guide to billing and coding for mental health services, and more! 

January 29, 2020
Medicare Insider

This week’s Medicare updates include a Q&A on changes to new technology add-on payments pertaining to antibiotics, a decision memo on coverage for acupuncture as a treatment for chronic low back pain, implementation details for a new ICD-10-CM code for vaping-related disorder, and more! 

January 24, 2020
Case Management Monthly

Case manager discharge planners, get ready: Another challenge awaits us in 2020. Beside the new Medicare discharge planning rule, more changes were made to Medicare Advantage (MA) plans.

January 22, 2020
Medicare Insider

This week’s Medicare updates include a new addition to the OIG work plan, the January edition of the Medicare Quarterly Compliance Newsletter, the January 2020 update to the Outpatient Prospective Payment System, and more!

January 15, 2020
Medicare Insider

This week’s Medicare updates include a Special Edition MLN Matters article on appropriate use criteria changes, updates to beneficiary notice forms, a beta version of an ICD-10-CM browsing tool, and more!

January 8, 2020
Medicare Web

The Transparency in Coverage Proposed Rule comment period has been extended from January 14 to January 29, CMS announced. The proposed rule would require insurers to provide personalized price estimates and publish negotiated in-network rates and historical payment information.

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