This week’s updates include Focused Dementia Care survey tools; a 0.2% reduction in IPPS rates; and more! This news article is free for all Medicare Insider subscribers. Click here to read all of this week’s updates.
This week’s updates include revisions to State Operations Manual (SOM), Appendix A -Survey Protocol, Regulations and Interpretive Guidelines for Hospitals; Claim Status Category and Claim Status Codes update; and more!
As providers work to implement policies and regulations introduced by CMS in the 2016 OPPS final rule, they should take some time before January 1 to make sure they’re ready to potentially report modifier –CT (computed tomography services furnished using equipment that does not meet each of the attributes of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association [NEMA] XR-29-2013 standard).
This week’s updates include a new influenza virus vaccine code; an MLN Matters article regarding selecting home health claims for Probe and Educate Review; and more!
This week’s updates include an update to the list of compendia for the determination of a “Medically-Accepted Indication” of drugs and biologicals used off-label in an anti-cancer chemotherapeutic regimen; a payment reduction for Computed Tomography (CT) diagnostic imaging services; and more!
The 2016 OPPS final rule certainly has some provisions that providers won’t be happy about, including a negative payment update for the first time, but CMS did provide some relief on what would surely be an onerous policy.
