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Light broke on hospital providers as CMS relented on payment cuts tied to the controversial two-midnight rule.
As physician practices grapple with Medicare's onerous quality-reporting programs, worry about ICD-10 implementation and, you know, perform that small task known as caring for their patients, a significant question looms on the horizon: Will they step into the value-based world of alternative payment models (APM)?

CMS' new FAQs on advance care planning (ACP) contain some clarifications for which providers have been waiting, including guidance on how time should be counted and how frequently the service may be billed.

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.

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