CMS may consider delaying implementation of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), Andy Slavitt, CMS acting administrator, said during a meeting of the Senate Finance Committee July 13.
CMS released the 2017 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule yesterday, with policies that look to expand an Innovation Center program, revise payment for care management services, and collect data regarding global period payments.
CMS proposes aligning its conditional packaging modifiers and deleting a much-maligned modifier for separately payable laboratory tests in the 2017 OPPS proposed rule, released July 6.
CMS is looking to implement the Section 603 provisions of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 regarding off-campus, provider-based departments by January 1, 2017, according to the 2017 OPPS proposed rule, released yesterday.
CMS issued a final rule last week to revamp the way it pays for tests under the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule (CLFS), though the agency has pushed the start date back a year and worked to ease administrative burden based on public comments.
In the July quarterly OPPS update, CMS mentions billing physical and occupational therapy and speech-language pathology services provided in support of or adjunctive to comprehensive APC services under revenue code 0940 rather than the NUBC-defined revenue codes. This article helps make sense of the situation.
