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NGS: Some advance care planning claims denied for POS will be paid

by: Roy Edroso Feb 22, 2016

A Medicare contractor is expanding the range of place of service (POS) codes they'll accept on advance care planning codes -- and will reverse denials made on those grounds.

Filing a hardship exception for meaningful use does not preclude incentive payments

by: Richard Scott Feb 19, 2016

You can file a hardship exception for the 2015 meaningful use reporting year even if you plan to attest to the program -- and the hardship application will not prevent you from receiving incentive payments should you attest successfully.

CMS/AHIP announce the next step in quality reporting

by: Julia Kyles, CPC Feb 16, 2016

Some providers who are juggling 50 to 100 different measures across various payers have something to look forward to: a total of 21 uniform measures that they'd report to all payers. That was a key take-away from the Feb. 16 CMS press call about the core measures collaborative, a quality initiative that Medicare and private payers will use.

Long-awaited CMS rule on overpayments gives 6-year lookback, specifies overcoding

by: Roy Edroso Feb 11, 2016

Four years after the proposed rule was issued, CMS has issued the final 60-day overpayment rule, formally called Reporting and Returning of Overpayments. It reduces the look-back period within which the agency can act on determinations that providers have received too much in Medicare funds but sets rigorous standards for determining what an overpayment is – including “over-coded” E/M claims.

CMS lifts low-broadband bar to skip meaningful use from 3Mbps to 4Mbps

by: Roy Edroso Feb 10, 2016

If you don't have enough households in your county at 4Mbps (megabits per second) Internet service, you can skip a couple of meaningful use measures.

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