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03/25/2024
The stopgap 2024 Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) upped the Part B conversion factor, but delivered what many health care industry groups consider insufficient relief to physicians suffering from Medicare cuts.
03/25/2024
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced in December a significant settlement with Lafourche Medical Group, marking the first resolution of an investigation into a phishing cyberattack under HIPAA. Understand key compliance strategies with the following question-and-answer session with Omer Kaan Aslim, cybersecurity specialist at cybersecurity firm Lake Ridge, who shares compliance tips related to this breach.
03/25/2024
Check your payments for telehealth services reported with place of service 10 (Telehealth provided in patient’s home) after Jan. 1, 2024. If your Medicare administrative contractor (MAC) paid the facility rate that’s a big mistake. Your MAC should pay the non-facility rate when the patient is at home during a telehealth service.
03/25/2024
Question: We have three follow-up questions about the new local coverage determination (LCD) for trigger point injections (20552-20553) that will take effect on April 1.
03/25/2024
Medicare’s chronic and complex chronic care management (CCM) codes continued their upward climb in 2022, and the power users among specialties remained mostly constant.
03/18/2024
Fallout from the Change Healthcare hack continues. Experts advise that even if you’re not actively caught up in it, you should take steps to ensure that if your practice experiences downhill effects — whether in cybersecurity, data security or business resiliency — the danger to your practice will be reduced.
03/18/2024
Watch out for edits to a range of new codes that debuted Jan. 1 in the upcoming updates to the National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) files. Your practice could see unexpected denials when the edits go into effect April 1.
03/18/2024
In the March 11 issue, Part B News investigated how you can implement guidance from the compliance toolkit released by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in November. This issue delivers additional tips for implementing cybersecurity best practices.
03/18/2024
In the March 4 issue, Part B News covered what practice personnel should know about handling legal papers such as subpoenas and court orders. One of the trickier questions is when it’s appropriate to give the requester all they ask for and when it’s not only inappropriate, but forbidden. Providing a granular analysis is Paul F. Schmeltzer, a health care attorney with Clark Hill in Los Angeles.
03/18/2024
CMS retroactively added two new CPT codes for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine administration to the Medicare physician fee schedule files, according to a recent MLN Connects newsletter. The codes affect services rendered on or after October 6, 2023.

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