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Your Medicare administrative contractor (MAC) will send your practice a letter before the end of May to let you know whether you have to participate in the merit-based incentive payment system (MIPS) to avoid a pay cut.
 
 
Looks like the Trump administration is going full speed ahead with Office of Civil Rights (OCR) prosecution of HIPAA breaches as yet another provider gets dinged with a multimillion-dollar settlement.
You’ll have a manageable set of diagnosis code changes on Oct. 1 – a total of 406 new, revised and deleted codes – with providers who code non-pressure chronic ulcers receiving the bulk of the new codes in the form of 72 new diagnoses that fill in the blanks for ulcers without evidence of necrosis.
Get a glimpse of the early returns associated with the Oncology Care Model during a May 11 live meeting.
If you were thinking that CMS under the Trump administration might go easier on providers in an audit situation, think again.

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