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CMS will expedite the next National Correct Coding Initiative update to stop denials when a provider reports administration of the COVID-19 vaccine and another vaccine code for the same patient on the same day.
 
The Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2026 (CAE 2026), reactivated the COVID-19 telehealth waivers until Jan. 30, 2026. Better still, the CAE 2026 closed a potential telehealth payment gap by backdating the extension to Sept. 30, 2025.
Fallout from the Change Healthcare hack continues. 
Check your payments for telehealth services reported with place of service 10 (Telehealth provided in patient’s home) after Jan. 1, 2024. If your MAC paid the facility rate that’s a big mistake.
Medicare decides it will accept place of service 27 (Outreach site/street) “to align with broader CMS efforts to address economic, social, and other obstacles impacting Medicare beneficiary healthcare access.”

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