This week’s Medicare updates include an extension for S-10 worksheet submission, implementation plans for computed radiography payment reductions, a new national coverage article for a genetic sequencing diagnostic test for cancer patients, and more!
OCR’s 2016 guidance on patient access opened up a debate in the industry and brought questions about fulfilling patient access requests to the foreground.
CMS announced November 30 through a final rule and interim final rule that it plans to cancel the Episode Payment Models and Cardiac Rehabilitation Incentive Payment Model, as well as make changes to the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Model.
We found out after an observation patient was discharged that one of the procedures performed was an inpatient-only procedure. Can we bill this to Medicare without an official inpatient order on the medical record?
