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Back up your 99024 reporting – OIG is watching

by: Laura Evans, CPC Jul 24, 2018

The post-operative visit code may not have its own payment rate, but the HHS watchdog is studying it anyway. Here's why.

Claims-based quality reporting could be pared down in 2019

by: Julia Kyles, CPC Jul 19, 2018

It’s no secret that claims-based quality measure reporting is very popular with practices, but not with CMS. The 2019 Medicare proposed physician fee schedule contains the agency's latest attempt to shift more practices to other methods that are less burdensome and expensive for the agency to administer.

Fee schedule reaction shot: 'This is insanity'

by: Richard Scott Jul 18, 2018

In the days after CMS dropped a bombshell of a proposed fee schedule, experts and industry groups continue to make sense of the expected aftermath. No proposals are final, of course, but the ideas floated -- around E/M payments and documentation, in particular -- could prove significantly disruptive to physician practices around the country.

CMS proposes sweeping changes to E/M payments, documentation requirements

by: DecisionHealth editorial staff Jul 12, 2018

You could find a single payment amount for your level 2 to 5 office codes and significantly reduced documentation requirements as soon as Jan. 1 should changes put forth in the 2019 proposed Medicare physician fee schedule come to realization.

Answers to your 2019 MIPS payment adjustment questions

by: Richard Scott Jul 11, 2018

Payment adjustments for the first year of the merit-based incentive payment system (MIPS) are scheduled to arrive soon, so now may be the time to brush up on any unanswered questions you have about your payment-affecting scores from the 2017 reporting year.

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