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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.
When it comes to business associate agreements (BAAs) under HIPAA, partners of large, complex health care entities may have a particular problem: Confusion as to who, among the many players, has the covered-entity job, and who has the business-associate job.
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 new rule from HHS attempts to clear some deadwood from the third and fourth level of Medicare appeals and reduce the absurd backlog at those levels.

If you have something to say about the proposed MIPS/APM rule, you need to act today. The comment period for the rule ends at 5 p.m., ET.

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