Q: A patient presents for routine obstetrical (OB) care following a vaginal delivery. During the visit, the provider performs a postpartum depression screening. Should the depression screening be charged separately from the global OB visit service?
This week's note from the instructor discusses the elimination of the direct supervision requirement for all hospital outpatient therapeutic services effective January 1, 2020.
Q: I read that CMS changed the scope of work for the Beneficiary and Family Centered Care Quality Improvement Organizations (BFCC-QIO) Livanta and Kepro recently. What impact has that had on hospitals?
Medicare overpaid providers $640,452 for chronic care management (CCM) services and may have overpaid outpatient facilities an additional $1.2 million for CCM, according to an Office of Inspector General (OIG) report released November 7.
