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Starting next year, Medicare would no longer pay a higher hospital outpatient facility fee for certain items and services provided in an off-campus, provider-based setting (place of service 19), under a CMS proposal issued July 6.
Early-intervention drug and alcohol screening can be a valuable service for your patients, yet many providers are leaving the preventive effort -- and the reimbursement associated with it -- on the table.
A 2017 budget bill that the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee approved last week proposes to cut all funding for a program that provides education and enrollment assistance to Medicare beneficiaries.
Here's some good news for labs that were dreading the new payment system for clinical diagnostic tests: CMS will delay implementation for one year, according to the final rule. The new fee schedule - which will be based on what labs receive from private payers - will kick in Jan. 1, 2018.
A strong advocate for relieving doctors of their meaningful use reporting burden has lost her House primary election and will leave Congress. But don't despair -- her replacement has largely voted with her on health IT issues. 

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