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Symptom assessment, CAHPS topics may be up next. While it’s not yet a done deal, recently released hospice quality measures may give providers an idea of what’s to come. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued its 2023 [...]

Under newly proposed configuration, half of VBP points will come from only 2 measures. As home health agencies navigate through their first year of the Expanded Home Health Value-Based Purchasing program, Medicare is proposing to change the rules of the [...]

Monitoring tumor changes may have gotten easier. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a device that can perform continuous ultrasounds for up to two days. Best of all, patients could wear the device while they go [...]

Be on the lookout for hassles over CCM payments to your ordering physicians to potentially affect referrals. Background: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services began paying docs for Chronic Care Management in 2015. Then in 2017, “CMS unbundled complex [...]

Warning: Drastic reimbursement cut could be waiting in the wings for HHAs. Medicare is proposing a rate increase for 2022 that would be slightly lower than this year’s, but home health agencies should write that figure in pencil rather than [...]

Get to know how these new CMS proposed rules might affect your practice. Fee schedule changes to most evaluation and management (E/M) services have been relatively safe from CMS intervention over the past few years. As for 2019, however, it’s [...]

Hint: Proposal causes one pulmonary practice in our sample to lose $93,000 in one year. Pulmonology practices have been able to rest easy during the past few years’ worth of fee schedule changes, but this year may have thrown a [...]

More than 40 new codes specify eyelid cancer. You read about the following new eyelid sebaceous-cell carcinoma codes in “Mark Changes to Coding Neoplasms, Metabolic Disorders, and More” on page 66: C44.131 (Sebaceous cell carcinoma of skin of unspecified eyelid, [...]

Here’s your second look at how familiar codes will change in October. The time until the new ICD-10 updates go into effect is counting down, with October 1 as the official implementation date. Last month we looked at how your [...]

October revisions will keep the denials at a minimum. Remember how you had thought you had lost a code for when a laparoscopic surgery becomes an open one? ICD-10 will resolve this as of October 1, when you’ll add Z53.31 [...]