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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.

The SGR is gone, but those pesky claims holds that have heralded the start of each year are still around.
CMS today announced the release of a DMEPOS final rule that requires a new mandatory preauthorization process for some medical equipment issued to Medicare beneficiaries.
Make sure your billing staff know CMS has issued a change request to include influenza virus vaccine CPT code 90630 (Influenza virus vaccine, quadrivalent (IIV4), split virus, preservative free, for intradermal use) for claims with dates of service on or after Aug. 1, 2015.

Practice management expert Lisa Maciejewski-West looks at the recently released 2016 OIG Work Plan and deduces that the Office of Inspector General (OIG) seems to have beaten back the big fraudsters -- and may be coming after you next.

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