This week’s Medicare updates include a Special Edition MLN Matters article on diabetes screening tests, revisions to the ambulatory surgical center October payment system update, manual changes related to implementation of the SNF Patient Driven Payment Model, and more!
This week’s Medicare updates include a final rule on revisions to discharge planning requirements, a handful of resources regarding a fraudulent genetic testing scheme, revisions to quality policies and procedures for laboratories, and more!
This week’s Medicare updates include an OIG review of emergency ambulance transports from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities, revisions to the State Operations Manual regarding critical access hospitals adding provider-based locations, coding revisions for national coverage determinations, and more!
This week’s Medicare updates include an article for health care professionals to use as a resource throughout the 2019-20 flu season, an OIG data brief on using CERT data to identify high-risk home health agencies, revisions to the Claims Processing Manual regarding billing for Part B inpatient services, and more!
This week’s Medicare updates include information on Hurricane Dorian waivers for Florida, the Carolinas, and Georgia; a final rule on provider enrollment changes aimed at minimizing the risk of fraudulent practices; the October update of the ambulatory surgical center payment system, and more!
This week’s Medicare updates include information on waivers and extensions for places affected by Hurricane Dorian, the October updates for the OPPS and DMEPOS fee schedule, the implementation on a policy revising requirements for appeals signatures, and more!
This week’s Medicare updates include a Special Edition MLN Matters article on the new documentation requirements for cost reports, revised manual instructions related to the implementation of the Patient-Driven Groupings Model, an OIG review of the impact of price substitutions based on average sales price data, and more!
This week’s Medicare updates include a new tracking sheet for a national coverage analysis of transcatheter mitral valve repair procedures, the October 2019 update to drug and biologicals HCPCS codes, the October 2019 update to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule database, and more!
CMS’ Hospital Outpatient Payment (HOP) panel made numerous recommendations at its annual meeting August 19 for the agency to consider ahead of the release of the 2020 OPPS final rule—with the panel and other stakeholders urging CMS to be more transparent with its responses and release of data.
This week’s Medicare updates include the release of the 2020 ICD-10-CM coding guidelines, a decision memo on chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, a booklet on critical access hospital requirements, and more!
