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Medicare will press ahead with a new bundled payment policy for lower extremity joint replacements next year, CMS announced in a final rule issued Nov. 16.
Three-quarters of the country's Medicare administrative contractors (MACs) have reported at least one ICD-10 claims-processing error, including a number of common procedures and services.
Come 2016, be prepared to adjust your billing protocol for transitional care management (TCM) services, reflected in codes 99495 and 99496.

The new U.S. budget is very bad for provider-based, off-campus facilities – and it was even worse before Congress revised it. But a top health care lawyer holds out hope it can be revised again in the facilities' favor.

 

The latest Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule doesn't do much for telehealth -- five new codes allowed, several more proposed services rejected, and no change in the onerous "originating site" rule that keeps telehealth from taking off as a Medicare service.

But the nation's leading telehealth advocacy group isn't complaining.

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