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Note: This article appeared in Medical Practice Compliance Alert, a sister publication of Part B News.
 
Medical Practice Compliance Alert has previously outlined several steps physicians should take to protect themselves when they prescribe opioids, such as following Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state clinical guidelines, complying with state laws that limit opioid prescribing, prescribing opioids only when medically necessary and avoiding relationships with pharmacies that may violate the anti-kickback law.

In a sign that Congress is serious, or at least wishes to be thought serious, on the well-publicized subject of opioid abuse, the Health Subcommittee of the House Energy & Commerce Committee this week pushed forward 57 bills, 56 of which they say are "focused on ways to help combat the opioid crisis," to the full committee. 

CMS has published feedback and issued a new RFI on proposed "Direct Provider Contracting Models" — which sound a lot like direct primary care, but with CMS paying the bills .

Providers could have 435 code changes to deal with starting Oct. 1 with 247 new codes, 139 revised codes and 49 codes rendered invalid, according to the hospital inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) proposed rule released April 24.

The American Medical Association (AMA) and American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) have developed a concept for an opioid treatment advanced alternative payment model (APM) which could - if accepted by CMS as an advanced APM - serve as a MIPS alternative.

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