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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.

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."

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