CMS has proposed a 2.4% Medicare pay hike for fiscal 2027 and is developing ways to eliminate payment “creep” under PDPM.
The growth of the Medicare Advantage (MA) program to over half of eligible Medicare beneficiaries has made MA payment a salient part of Medicare policy discussions. Those discussions often focus on ...
CMS and the American Academy of Professional Coders hosted a Code-a-Thon on April 26, at which coding experts from AAPC responded to nearly 250 questions from more than 1,200 participants, according ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued a permanent billing and reimbursement J-code, J9183, for the ...
Conclusions: Our findings suggest that Medicare inpatient encounters are associated with higher coding intensity than ...
"Assignment of an HCPCS A-code is an important step in supporting appropiate billing for Microlyte ® PainGuard™," said Terry ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has posted a video on YouTube featuring footage from its April ICD-10 Code-a-Thon, according to an AAPC report. The Code-a-Thon was held in collaboration ...
Nearly five years have passed since the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared the first prescription digital therapeutic (PDT), and nearly another dozen have followed. PDTs are defined as ...
395 new diagnosis codes have been proposed by CMS for fiscal year 2024. CMS recently released the fiscal year 2024 inpatient prospective payment system proposed rule, and with it came the annual ...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced on Tuesday a 1.5 percent cut to the amount it pays hospitals, a move designed to recover $11 billion in overpayments. The American Taxpayer ...
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