Meet your CERT contractor before it’s too late. Where your state falls on Medicare’s payment error rate ranking may determine what oversight initiatives you see come to your doorstep. For example: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ new 2023 [...]
Hint: Proposal would cause one practice in our sampling to lose $25,000 in a year. If your practice often complains about the limitations that the 1995 and 1997 E/M guidelines place on E/M coding, CMS may have delivered a gift [...]
Plus: Check out these potential changes to E/M documentation, lung tumor ablation codes. Pulmonology coders may not be ready for 2018 yet, but CMS is already prepping for the calendar to turn, releasing the 2018 proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, [...]
The agency seeks feedback on how these changes would impact your practice. With summer about to end, it's time for CMS to begin preparing for the New Year - and that means releasing the 2018 proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, [...]
Plus: Check out these potential new esophagectomy codes. CMS has released its 2018 proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, which recommends updates to the Part B payment policy. The proposals could be significant for gastroenterology practices, since some of the biggest [...]
Could you end up with more money for your ED visits? CMS has released its 2018 proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, which recommends updates to the Part B payment policy. The proposals could be significant for emergency departments, since some [...]
Looking for big changes in the 2017 rule? You won’t find them. Hospices are slated to receive an additional $350 million in Medicare payments next year. In the final rule released July 29, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services [...]
Pay raise will add an estimated $350 million to hospice payments next year. If you were hoping to see some changes to Medicare’s 2017 proposed payment rule for hospices, prepare to be disappointed. In the final rule released July 29, [...]
Cap year switch to take place in 2017. A modest 2 percent pay increase could be coming your way, if MedPAC and other policymakers don’t get in its way. In its proposed rule for the fiscal year that begins Oct. [...]
Cap year switch to take place in 2017. MedPAC may be agitating for a hospice rate freeze, but at least for 2017 a pay increase is still in the works. In its proposed rule for the fiscal year that begins [...]
