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02/06/2023
CMS is touting the growth of three accountable care organization (ACO) programs — and predicts it will meet its goal of connecting all Medicare beneficiaries to ACOs by 2030. Experts aren’t so sure, though they do think Medicare’s ACO program is heading in the right direction.
02/06/2023
The Biden administration announced its intention to end the U.S. COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) on May 11, 2023. In place since Jan. 31, 2020, the PHE has allowed numerous flexibilities within the Medicare program that will need to be either extended or wound down.
02/06/2023
Find additional guidance on admission and discharge coding, the importance of social determinants of health (SDOH) and using time to report services.
02/06/2023
Highlight the importance of an impenetrable work/life firewall when staff have access to the protected health information (PHI) of relatives, friends and other acquaintances. They can access the PHI when they stick to the rules. But if you ignore access rules, you risk exposing the practice to a HIPAA breach.
02/06/2023
Starting July 1, practices will have a diverse collection of new CPT Category III codes to use for procedures including pulmonary artery denervation, two-chamber leadless pacemaker implant and percutaneous sacroiliac joint fusion.
02/06/2023
Remote physiological monitoring (RPM) continues to surge in popularity. A three-year review shows massive growth among the suite of RPM codes – 99091, 99453-99458, 99473-99474 – that debuted between the years of 2018 and 2020.

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