Make sure staff — and your billing software — pick up on three new twists to moderate sedation billing when the surgeon who performs certain gastrointestinal procedures also provides the moderate sedation for patients over the age of 4.

You’ll find a ticket to getting paid in 2017 when you wrap behavioral health services into your practice, according to the final 2017 Medicare physician fee schedule released Nov. 2.

Below are impacts of reimbursement changes in the final 2017 Medicare physician fee schedule by selected specialties.

Use this list of payment changes, policy changes and quality reporting notes from the final 2017 Medicare physician fee schedule, released Nov. 2, to prepare your practice for 2017.

Providers who offer a new Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program (MDPP) can be paid for sessions all year, even if participating beneficiaries don’t meet weight-loss targets CMS had proposed.

CMS will require providers and suppliers to be screened and enrolled in Medicare before they can contract with Medicare Advantage (MA) organizations to provide items and services to those beneficiaries.

Since the Quality Payment Program (QPP) final rule with comment came out Oct. 14, everyone’s been talking about the forgiving MIPS minimums, which allow providers to avoid negative payment adjustments with some simple reporting (PBN 10/24/16). But suppose your practice has been reporting quality measures and wants to rack up many more points to grab the maximum 4% positive adjustment CMS has advertised – what do you do?