December 13, 2017
Medicare Insider

This week’s Medicare updates include a reminder on proper inpatient billing procedures and a notice about revisions to the State Operations Manual.

December 7, 2017
Medicare Insider

This week's note from the instructor examines the process of deciding when to appeal a denial. 

December 6, 2017
Medicare Insider

This week’s Medicare updates include an extension for S-10 worksheet submission, implementation plans for computed radiography payment reductions, a new national coverage article for a genetic sequencing diagnostic test for cancer patients, and more!

November 30, 2017
Medicare Insider

This week's note from the instructor discusses ways to resolve Medicare billing edits. 

November 29, 2017
Medicare Insider

This week’s Medicare updates include the announcement of the Part A and Part B premiums and deductibles for 2018, clarification on new Conditions of Participation regarding home health agency subunits, a proposed decision memo on conditions of coverage for implantable cardioverter defibrillators, and more! 

November 22, 2017
Medicare Insider

This week’s Medicare updates include an advisory opinion on using network hospitals for inpatient stays; annual updates to HCPCS codes used for home health consolidated billing and the therapy code list; the removal of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (topical application of oxygen) from an NCD; and more! 

November 16, 2017
Medicare Insider

This week’s note is the third in a series of articles examining coding, billing, and payment rules for rural health clinics.

November 15, 2017
Medicare Insider

This week’s Medicare updates include new hospital appeals settlement options, revisions involving the addition and deletion of ICD-10-CM codes from certain NCDs, details on the partial settlement of a 2-Midnight policy court case, and more! 

November 9, 2017
Medicare Insider

This week's note reviews two major policy changes from the OPPS and MPFS final rules: the reduction in reimbursement for 340B drugs and the reduction in the payment adjustment for non-excepted off-campus provider-based departments. 

November 8, 2017
Medicare Insider

This week’s Medicare updates include the OPPS, Quality Payment Program, End-Stage Renal Disease, and Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rules; an announcement of the new Meaningful Measures initiative; a list of new Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments waived tests; and more! 

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