July 10, 2019
Medicare Insider

This week’s Medicare updates include a decision memo for an ambulatory blood pressure monitoring NCD, another extension of enforcement discretion for the laboratory date of service exception policy, a fact sheet on proper billing processes for DMEPOS items delivered to inpatients, and more!

June 26, 2019
Medicare Insider

This week’s Medicare updates include the release of the 2020 ICD-10-CM codes, new voluntary appeals settlement options for inpatient rehabilitation facilities, updated instructions for organ transplant programs, and more! 

June 19, 2019
Medicare Insider

This week’s Medicare updates include the extension of a final rule on improvements for acute care and critical access hospitals, an OIG report on potential abuse and neglect at skilled nursing facilities, a revision to the July update of HCPCS codes, and more!  

June 12, 2019
Medicare Insider

This week’s Medicare updates include an OIG review of a hospital’s skewed wage data, a court-ordered explanation on methodology for certain IPPS calculations, a memo on changes to timelines on investigations for deaths associated with restraint or seclusion, and more!

June 5, 2019
Medicare Insider

This week’s Medicare updates include an in-depth article on CAR T-Cell billing, a transmittal on changes to postpayment additional documentation request sample letters, a correction to the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System proposed rule, and more!

May 29, 2019
Medicare Insider

This week’s Medicare updates include a series of OIG reviews of home health billing, the July 2019 update of the OPPS and I/OCE, a report on how health IT influences care coordination in accountable care organizations, and more!

May 22, 2019
Medicare Insider

This week’s Medicare updates include a final rule on Medicare Advantage drug pricing, the quarterly update for HCPCS drug/biological codes, an update to claim status and claim status category codes, and more!  

May 15, 2019
Medicare Insider

This week’s Medicare updates include a new Home Health Change of Care Notice, a final rule regarding drug pricing transparency, new information on patient relationship categories and codes, and more!

May 8, 2019
Medicare Insider

This week’s Medicare updates include a draft of guidance for hospital co-location, additional instructions for implementation of the Patient-Driven Groupings Model, a proposed rule on changes of ownership for accrediting organizations, and more!

May 1, 2019
Medicare Insider

This week’s Medicare updates include the Inpatient Prospective Payment System proposed rule, the announcement of a set of voluntary payment models focusing on primary care, the quarterly update for the End-Stage Renal Disease Prospective Payment System, and more! 

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