Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement
PROGRAM MEMO ROUNDUP
Durable medical equipment suppliers have a host of new "K" codes to get familiar with, thanks to a trio of April 11 program memoranda from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. In the memos (AB-03-043; http://cms.hhs.gov/manuals/pm_trans/AB03043.pdf, AB-03-044; http://cms.hhs.gov/manuals/pm_trans/AB03044.pdf and AB-03-045; http://cms.hhs.gov/manuals/pm_trans/AB03045.pdf), CMS adds temporary K codes for: The agency also adds two K codes (K0620 and K0621) for surgical dressings. In other recent program memoranda CMS:
Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement
- Medicare Drug Benefit:
CONGRESS DESPERATELY SEEKING WAYS TO RETOOL DRUG BILLS
With the White House's 2003 Medicare prescription-drug proposal now in the mix, members of Congress [...] - Medicaid:
NGA MEDICAID PANEL MULLING MORE THAN WHITE HOUSE PLAN
The ten-member governors' task force convened by the National Governors Association hopes to come up [...] - Medicare Reform:
HEALTH PLANS FIGHTING NEGATIVE PERCEPTIONS IN REFORM BATTLE
Health plans hoping to see a larger population of Medicare beneficiaries move into private plans [...] - Dual Eligibles:
COULD STATE CONCERNS BE KEY TO FATE OF MEDICARE Rx?
High on states' wish list for Congress is legislation to shift Medicaid costs for beneficiaries [...] - Litigation:
GALLUP SUES SCULLY OVER ALLEGED BULLYING
The Gallup Organization polling firm has filed suit against Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services [...] - Hospitals:
HOSPITAL-PHYSICIAN BUSINESS DEALS UNDER SCRUTINY
Heads up hospitals and physicians: The feds are looking ever more closely at medical group-hospital [...] - Reimbursement:
HOSPITALS BEMOAN OUTLIER CHANGES
Hospitals should brace themselves for potential reimbursement shortfalls under the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid [...] - Physicians:
PHYSICIANS CAN EARN CMEs THROUGH QIOs
Physicians have one more incentive to get involved with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid [...] - Medicare:
OIG SLAMS CODING SEMINAR COMPANY
Have you been duped by coding and billing education companies that tout non-existent formal affiliations [...] - Fraud & Abuse:
YOUR PATIENTS ARE WATCHING YOU
Your Medicare patients are more likely than ever to have been trained on ferreting out [...] - Business Arrangements:
PER-PATIENT FEE STRUCTURES RAISE COMPLIANCE RED FLAGS
If you're about to ink a business deal with another health care provider that involves [...] - Hospitals:
OUTLIER BLUNDERS GO BOTH WAYS
Hospitals face ever-mounting attention on Medicare outlier payments - and are bracing for a new [...] - Overpayments:
EPOGEN, Rx CHARGES STAND OUT IN OUTPATIENT PAYMENT REVIEW
Providers of outpatient services should take note that their claims are under scrutiny by the [...] - Long-Term Care:
SNFs FACE ELIGIBILITY SCRUTINY
Skilled nursing facilities across the country could soon be asked to hand back Medicare dollars [...] - Coverage:
MRA COVERAGE EXPANDS
Health care providers will soon have more opportunities to collect Medicare reimbursement for magnetic resonance [...] - HIPAA:
EXPECT THE EXPECTED IN HIPAA ENFORCEMENT
Curious about what it will be like if you get slapped with allegations that you [...] - OASIS:
HHAs MIGHT HAVE TO PLAY 'DOCTOR, MAY I?' FOR CODING
Everyone knows it's the physician and not the home health agency that officially diagnoses a [...] - Reimbursement:
CMS SHOOTS DOWN PRRB REVERSAL OF PTs' SALARY ADJUSTMENTS
Despite numerous Provider Reimbursement Review Board and federal court decisions decreeing that directly employed physical [...] - Hospitals:
NEW RULES HIT HOME FOR HOSPITAL SURVEYS
With new hospital quality rules in effect for Medicare, surveyors will be taking a different [...] - Coverage:
WINS, LOSSES AND TIES IN MEDICARE PET SCAN POLICIES
Health care providers will soon be able to bill Medicare for positron emission tomography scans [...] - PROGRAM MEMO ROUNDUP
Durable medical equipment suppliers have a host of new "K" codes to get familiar with, [...] - REGISTER WATCH
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' tardiness in implementing a national fee schedule for [...] - BILL WATCH
The following House bills were introduced:
H.R. 1784. A bill to amend title XVIII of [...] - WHO'S WHO IN MEDICARE
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Deputy Administrator Ruben King-Shaw has left the agency. King-Shaw, [...]
