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Other health care news outlets have tried to predict the arrival of the new proposed rule for the 2018 Quality Payment Program. We've been more cautious, but we're ready to predict the wait will end today (June 19).
Two medical centers in Massachusetts will pay more than $700,000 to settle allegations that they upcoded claims when they failed to follow the rules for new and established patients.
Once upon a time, the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued an annual Work Plan. More recently, the agency has issued a Work Plan and an update a few months later. On June 15, the OIG announced it will issue monthly updates to its Work Plan to-do list.
Starting Oct. 1, you’ll be able to select a specific ICD-10-CM code when a patient is in remission from abuse of each of a variety of substances, including alcohol, opioids, cannabis and nicotine.

The American Medical Association wants to widen the 60-day window within which physicians can be replaced by locum tenens equivalents. But a locum expert says CMS is unlikely to go for it.

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