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Did you get word from CMS that you flunked your PQRS and value modifer reporting and have to pay the 2% penalty? You have until Monday to try and get a reprieve.

Medicare will press ahead with a new bundled payment policy for lower extremity joint replacements next year, CMS announced in a final rule issued Nov. 16.
Three-quarters of the country's Medicare administrative contractors (MACs) have reported at least one ICD-10 claims-processing error, including a number of common procedures and services.

The latest Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule doesn't do much for telehealth -- five new codes allowed, several more proposed services rejected, and no change in the onerous "originating site" rule that keeps telehealth from taking off as a Medicare service.

But the nation's leading telehealth advocacy group isn't complaining.

Practices have a new revenue opportunity in 2016 for providing advance care planning (ACP) services, as finalized in the final 2016 Medicare physician fee schedule released Oct. 30.

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