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Make sure your billing staff is aware of a code revision for the Cologuard screening test, which previously was reported with HCPCS code G0464.
Following up to a story we first reported last week: Providers will be able to file a heardship exception for the meaningful use program until March 15, 2016, after President Obama signed the Patient Access and Medicare Protection Act (S.2425) into law.
Don’t let up on your 2015 quality reporting efforts yet. In order to avoid quality reporting penalties in 2017 – and to have a shot at the value based bonus – you have to get all of your data to CMS on time.

CMS has issued a request for information (RFI) asking for feedback to improve the way clinical quality measures are handled electronically in electronic health records (EHRs), which may lay extra burdens on EHR developers but make electronic reporting easier for providers.

The SGR is gone, but those pesky claims holds that have heralded the start of each year are still around.

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