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This week's Medicare updates include a plethora of information on COVID-19 coverage, payment, and infection control guidance; a new Part D savings model focused on lowering insulin costs; a final rule on interoperability and patient access; and more!

This week’s Medicare updates include a variety of new information on coronavirus coding and billing, the quarterly update to the OPPS, and the quarterly update to the clinical laboratory fee schedule.

This week’s Medicare updates include an article on elements necessary to include on orders or prescriptions for certain DMEPOS items, an NCA on colorectal cancer blood-based biomarker tests, a change to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule database update file, and more!

This week’s Medicare updates include four new items added to the OIG work plan, a new version of the integrated denial notice form, a transmittal implementing numerous regulatory revisions to the State Operations Manual, and more!

This week’s Medicare updates include an article on billing and payment provisions for therapy services under PDGM, an update to the list of DMEPOS items that require prior authorization, a new code to use for coronavirus lab tests, and more! 

This week’s Medicare updates include a final decision memo on an NCD for next generation sequencing tests, an update to manual guidance on prior authorization, a guide to billing and coding for mental health services, and more! 

This week’s Medicare updates include a Q&A on changes to new technology add-on payments pertaining to antibiotics, a decision memo on coverage for acupuncture as a treatment for chronic low back pain, implementation details for a new ICD-10-CM code for vaping-related disorder, and more! 

This week’s Medicare updates include a new addition to the OIG work plan, the January edition of the Medicare Quarterly Compliance Newsletter, the January 2020 update to the Outpatient Prospective Payment System, and more!

This week’s Medicare updates include a Special Edition MLN Matters article on appropriate use criteria changes, updates to beneficiary notice forms, a beta version of an ICD-10-CM browsing tool, and more!

This week’s Medicare updates include transmittals on new provider specialty codes for opioid treatment programs, the implementation transmittal for the Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System, correction notices for the 2020 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rule and Outpatient Prospective Payment System final rule, and more!