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CMS today announced the release of a DMEPOS final rule that requires a new mandatory preauthorization process for some medical equipment issued to Medicare beneficiaries.
Make sure your billing staff know CMS has issued a change request to include influenza virus vaccine CPT code 90630 (Influenza virus vaccine, quadrivalent (IIV4), split virus, preservative free, for intradermal use) for claims with dates of service on or after Aug. 1, 2015.

Practice management expert Lisa Maciejewski-West looks at the recently released 2016 OIG Work Plan and deduces that the Office of Inspector General (OIG) seems to have beaten back the big fraudsters -- and may be coming after you next.

Two  Three MACs serving 13 16 states, citing "technical errors discovered after publication of the MPFS rule," announce they're holding Part B claims for 14 days in early January. (See Update.)

It may not be a good idea to have your non-physician practitioners (NPPs) do scribe work. But maybe, in certain circumstances, they should have a scribe.  

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