Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement
PROGRAM MEMO ROUNDUP
Health care providers that bill Medicare for Part B mental health services should take special heed of a March 28 program memorandum from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (AB-03-037; http://cms.hhs.gov/manuals/pm_trans/AB03037.pdf). The memo is designed to help providers master the intricacies of mental health billing and documentation rules - an urgent compliance risk area highlighted in a number of recent reports from the HHS Office of Inspector General. In other recent program memoranda, CMS:
Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement
- Legislation:
MEDICAID CUTS HANG IN THE BALANCE
The House and Senate are duking it out over $93 billion in Medicaid cuts, and [...] - Quality Improvement:
NEWSPAPER ADS COMPARING HHA OUTCOMES WEEKS AWAY
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will trumpet home health agency patient outcomes in [...] - Pharmaceuticals:
COURT OKS MICHIGAN MEDICAID RX PROGRAM
Michigan may go forward with its effort to obtain deep discounts from prescription-drug manufacturers for [...] - Medicare+Choice:
MOST POPULAR M+C PLANS TO GET TWO PERCENT RAISE
In 2004, managed care plans serving the majority of Medicare+Choice beneficiaries will again see only [...] - Compliance:
HEALTH CARE DIRECTORS MUST SPEAK UP ON COMPLIANCE
As the Enron fiasco continues to play out and the HealthSouth debacle puts the corporate [...] - Medicare:
MEDICARE REGULATORY REFORM MOVES FORWARD, BUT HALTINGLY
It's nice to know that even in the House Ways and Means Committee, occasionally a [...] - Self-Referral:
STARK LAWS COULD CAST WIDER NET
Specialty hospitals will be in for a major overhaul of how they structure deals with [...] - Quality of Care:
FOR NURSING HOMES, QUALITY IS JOB ONE
Nursing homes that fail to establish solid programs to ensure quality of care could very [...] - Physicians:
STAFFING COMPANIES IN LINE FOR STEPPED UP SCRUTINY
Staffing companies that contract with physicians to staff emergency rooms and other hospital departments could [...] - HIPAA:
PROVIDERS ADOPT 'JUST-IN-TIME' APPROACH TO HIPAA COMPLIANCE
Have you deferred a good chunk of your Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act compliance [...] - Medicaid:
SCHOOL-BASED SERVICES DRAW FRAUD-FIGHTERS' NOTICE
Medicaid rules and regulations cast a wide net, and sometimes the fraud and abuse perils [...] - Reimbursement:
NEW APPROACHES TO NEW TECH PAYMENTS
Health care providers that deal extensively with new and emerging technologies may soon see some [...] - Medicaid:
AUDIOLOGISTS FACE NEW RULES FOR MEDICAID
Audiologists would have to meet a new set of requirements to provide services - including [...] - Medicare+Choice:
FINAL M+C APPEAL RULE EASES ADVANCE NOTICE REQUIREMENT
Medicare+Choice organizations will have to notify enrollees two days prior to terminating services under a [...] - PROGRAM MEMO ROUNDUP
Health care providers that bill Medicare for Part B mental health services should take special [...] - BILL WATCH
The following House bills were introduced:
H.R. 1539. A bill to amend title XVIII of [...]
