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National Government Services (NGS) has fixed a problem with advance care planning codes (ACP) 99497 and 99498, so providers in their jurisdiction should see their wrongly denied claims resolved.

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.

CMS beat its deadline for issuing a revised value file for the 2016 physician fee schedule, but we've unearthed one surprise in the new file.

We talked to Lisa Maciejewski-West -- president and owner of Gold Star Medical Business Services in San Angelo, Texas, and a faculty member of the Practice Management Institute (PMI) – about the new DMEPOS final rule and its possible impact on providers.

She expects the pre-authorization scheme will be troubled and "revisited and revised until a workable solution is found."

The SGR is gone, but those pesky claims holds that have heralded the start of each year are still around.

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