News & Analysis

March 1, 2016
Case Management Monthly

At the completion of this educational activity, the learner will be able to:

March 1, 2016
Medicare Insider

This week’s updates include substantial revisions to QIO Manual for reviews involving potential administrative sanctions; Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Model (CJR) provider education; and more!

March 1, 2016
Briefings on APCs

The CPT Manual divides drug administration services into three different categories:

  • Hydration (CPT codes 96360-96361)
  • Therapeutic, prophylactic, and diagnostic injections and infusions (96365-96379)
  • Chemotherapy and other highly complex drug or highly complex biologic agent administration (96401-96549)

 

March 1, 2016
Briefings on APCs

The 2016 CPT® code update may have been relatively small compared to previous years, but the urinary and genital system sections did receive numerous changes to align them with other sections of the code book.

March 1, 2016
Briefings on APCs

Our experts answer questions about Composite APCs, modifier –CT, and more.

March 1, 2016
Briefings on APCs

This month's column is all about data--the importance of providers reporting accurate and complete data, as well as CMS having complete, accurate, and consistent data to compute future payment rates.

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