Part B Insider (Multispecialty) Coding Alert

Use policy updates for your 2020 planning.

After months with little communication on the flagship initiative to reduce administrative burdens in healthcare, Medicare finally released a new Patients Over Paperwork newsletter.

The latest issuance is chock full of details on what the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has been doing to cut down providers’ paperwork. The release covers these hot topics:

• Rural health administrative reductions
• Second anniversary of Patients Over Paperwork celebrations
• Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) updates
• Documentation simplification for immunosuppressive drugs and home health
• A short overview of eight CMS rules that cut paperwork

See the newsletter at  www.cms.gov/files/document/november-2019-patients-over-paperwork-newsletter. 

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