This week’s Medicare updates include the OPPS, Quality Payment Program, End-Stage Renal Disease, and Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rules; an announcement of the new Meaningful Measures initiative; a list of new Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments waived tests; and more!
Email is a routine and essential part of communication in healthcare—even when communicating PHI. But setting and enforcing HIPAA-compliant email policies continues to be tricky for many organizations.
A new effort is underway to allow observation stays to count toward the three-day stay required by CMS to qualify for reimbursement for a postacute skilled nursing facility stay.
This week's note reviews pre-service coverage analysis processes in light of the recent CMS decision to delegate the target, probe, and educate medical review strategy to the Medicare Administrative Contractors.
Section 216(a) of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA) added a requirement that will dramatically revise the Medicare Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule (CLFS) effective January 1, 2018.
