This week’s Medicare updates include a MIPS Participation Status Letter, FY 2018 proposed rules for skilled nursing facilities and inpatient rehabilitation facilities, and more!
CMS released the fiscal year 2018 IPPS proposed rule in April, and with it came a bevy of new potential ICD-10-CM codes. The update includes a total of 406 proposed new, revised, and deleted codes to be implemented October 1, 2017.
Traditionally, the OPPS rulemaking cycle has been the main vehicle for changes to outpatient coding and billing regulations and policy that hospitals need to pay attention to. But increasingly, CMS has been introducing or discussing changes relevant to outpatient hospitals beyond the scope of the OPPS rules.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) gave organizations and patients some relief from the stricter privacy rules protecting substance abuse and treatment information. But did SAMHSA really make the rule simpler, or will privacy and security officers find themselves grappling with a fresh set of complicated rules and exceptions?
