This week’s updates include Advance Care Planning (ACP) as an optional element of an Annual Wellness Visit (AWV); a request for information regarding the awarding and the administration of MAC contracts; and more!
Outpatient coding and billing errors lead to more than half of all automated denials by Recovery Auditors, according to the latest RACTrac survey from the American Hospital Association (AHA).
This week’s updates include calendar year (CY) 2016 annual clinical laboratory fee schedule and laboratory services subject to reasonable charge payment update; Settlement effectuation instructions for HHS Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals (OMHA) Settlement Conference Facilitation (SCF) Pilot; and more!
Small tweaks to the 2-midnight rule in the 2016 OPPS final rule should help providers, but a lengthy court battle related to the rule could end up making a bad situation worse.
This week’s updates include revisions to ICD-10 conversion/coding infrastructure revisions to NCDs; a modification of OIG Advisory Opinion 07-11; and more! This news article is free for all Medicare Insider subscribers. Click here to read all of this week’s updates.
HealthDataInsights (HDI) posted one new issue in one category to its CMS list for providers in Region D. (See link for individual state applicability.)
After several delays, ICD-10 implementation is finally upon us. The healthcare industry has spent years planning, training, and testing?and now the moment we have all been waiting for has arrived. But don't breathe a sigh of relief just yet.
