This week’s Medicare updates include the Inpatient Prospective Payment System proposed rule, the announcement of a set of voluntary payment models focusing on primary care, the quarterly update for the End-Stage Renal Disease Prospective Payment System, and more!
The Office of Inspector General is stepping up audits of inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) claims. Use these expert tips to ensure your facility is coding and billing correctly for these services.
The ease of practitioners to transfer active professional licenses to others states is a longstanding issue across the industry, and this issue of licensure portability tests the patience and fortitude of case management professionals.
In this month's security Q&A, our expert answers questions on the location of data backups, telehealth services using video conferencing, cloud service providers outside the U.S., and more!
CMS’ fiscal year (FY) 2020 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) proposed rule, released April 23, includes a proposed increase to hospital payment rates, annual ICD-10-CM/PCS code update proposals, and significant changes to complication or comorbidity (CC)/major complication or comorbidity (MCC) and Medicare-Severity Diagnosis-Related Group (MS-DRG) designations.
