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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."

Make sure your billing staff is aware of a code revision for the Cologuard screening test, which previously was reported with HCPCS code G0464.
Following up to a story we first reported last week: Providers will be able to file a heardship exception for the meaningful use program until March 15, 2016, after President Obama signed the Patient Access and Medicare Protection Act (S.2425) into law.

CMS has issued a request for information (RFI) asking for feedback to improve the way clinical quality measures are handled electronically in electronic health records (EHRs), which may lay extra burdens on EHR developers but make electronic reporting easier for providers.

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