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11/07/2022
If your practice orders or performs urine drug tests (UDT), take note: Your Medicare administrative contractor (MAC) is working on a new policy for these high-utilization services, and it could go into effect in the next few months.
11/07/2022
Watch your payers’ communications and your remittance advice codes for signs of stealth pay cuts and automatic downcoding, the AMA warns in a 15-page guide the association announced in an email Oct. 21.
11/07/2022
Recent CDC guidance suggests some added flexibility in mask use in medical facilities. If the guidance doesn’t track with your own masking policy, make sure your staff and patients are clear as to where you stand.
11/07/2022
In a revision to its previous guidance on the health worker vaccine mandate, CMS still holds that any less-than-100% compliance is noncompliance but suggests that good-faith efforts may merit a reprieve.
11/07/2022
Many health care systems are looking at where to expand next in the outpatient and ambulatory medical group settings. Outpatient clinical documentation integrity (CDI) is often focused on hospital emergency department (ED) and observation settings. Ambulatory CDI is viewed as provider-billed charges and focuses on medical group clinics.
11/07/2022
After stalled growth in 2020, practices lived through a modest recovery in utilization in 2021. For payments, however, it was a banner year.

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