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Just a few weeks after closing out a Request for Information on its No Surprises Act (NSA) rules, CMS has given anxious providers an early holiday gift: An extension of its enforcement discretion on the convening provider requirements that are part of the Good Faith Estimates (GFE) providers must create for patients.
Help your staff connect E/M visits in the nursing facility and home with the correct place of service (POS) code with an E/M-family-to-POS crosswalk.
An orthopedic surgeon had to pay back millions and was sentenced to years in prison in a case involving compounded drugs – a recurrent theme in recent DOJ health care prosecutions.
Make sure billers, coders, clinicians and compliance staff understand that the substantive portion rule does not apply to CPT split/shared coding guidelines.
 
Start your look-ahead to CY 2023: Payment cuts are coming, significant changes to E/M services are finalized and key reporting revisions are hitting telehealth and audio-only services, according to the final 2023 Medicare physician fee schedule released today.
 
Proposed payment cuts that drew vocal criticism from physician advocacy groups will move forward as planned, as CMS announced a 4.5% reduction to the CY 2023 Medicare Part B conversion factor (CF), effective Jan. 1.
 

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