Q: Can a healthcare provider be a business associate of another provider? In other words, do providers need to have business associate agreements between one another?
This week's note from the instructor discusses a change that will be implemented in October to address issues related to device-dependent procedure edits.
This week’s Medicare updates include an OIG review of emergency ambulance transports from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities, revisions to the State Operations Manual regarding critical access hospitals adding provider-based locations, coding revisions for national coverage determinations, and more!
Several national groups representing accountable care organizations and physicians expressed concern that CMS has delayed disbursement of the 5% advanced alternative payment model (APM) bonus.
