News & Analysis

Q&A: Therapeutic Services

March 29, 2016
Medicare Web

Q: What are therapeutic services?

This week in Medicare updates–03/30/2016

March 29, 2016
Medicare Insider

This week’s updates include new waived tests; guidance to surveyors in conducting exit conferences; and more!

Note from the instructor: Medicare Payment of Covered Chiropractic Services Requires Attestation of Active Treatment

March 23, 2016
Medicare Insider

This week’s note is about documentation and billing of chiropractic treatment. 

This week in Medicare updates–03/23/2016

March 22, 2016
Medicare Insider

This week’s updates include implementation of the award for Jurisdiction A DME MAC workload; April 2016 Integrated Outpatient Code Editor (I/OCE) Specifications Version 17.1; and more!

Note from the instructor: Review of certification and recertification requirements for critical access hospital “swing” bed patients

March 16, 2016
Medicare Insider

This week’s note is about certification requirements for swing beds in critical access hospitals.

This week in Medicare updates–03/16/2016

March 15, 2016
Medicare Insider

This week’s updates include July quarterly update to 2016 annual update of HCPCS codes used for SNF Consolidated Billing (CB) enforcement; updates to Pub. 100-04, Medicare Claims Processing Manual, Chapters 4 and 5 to correct remittance advice messages; and more!

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