News & Analysis

March 8, 2017
Medicare Web

Q: We have seen a decrease in payment for our CT scans this year. It is only affecting the scans that we report with modifier –CT, so it isn’t all of them, but it is enough that our CFO has asked about it.

March 7, 2017
Medicare Web

In a provider-based department, when an injection is provided by a registered nurse, is the admin fee billed on the hospital’s UB claim form with the drug or under global billed on the 1500?

March 7, 2017
Medicare Insider

This week’s Medicare updates include the April 2017 Update of the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System; the April 2017 Update of the Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System; an National Coverage Analysis for Supervised Exercise Therapy (SET) for Symptomatic Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD); and more!

March 7, 2017
Medicare Web

The American Case Management Association (ACMA) is now offering the Accredited Case Manager (ACM™) certification exam at more than 300 testing sites, according to a press release. Previously, ACMA offered the exam at 185 testing sites.

March 6, 2017
Briefings on HIPAA

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are one of the oldest cyberattacks in the books, but they’re still common and can knock out vital services, leaving patients and providers unable to access EHRs and other systems.

March 3, 2017
Medicare Web

What verbal notification is needed in addition to providing a completed Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice (MOON)?

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