Every year, adjustments in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) take place in the ambulatory surgery center (ASC) billing. For ASCs that depend heavily on Medicare and Medicare Advantage, being ...

At the 18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 28, Sandra Jones, FHFMA, LHRM, CASC, owner, Ambulatory Strategies, Inc., and an executive vice president with ASD Management ...

CMS faces obstacles to overseeing the Medicare Electronic Health Record Incentive Program, leaving the program vulnerable to paying incentives to professionals and hospitals that do not fully meet the ...

The newsletter outlines key differences between off-the-shelf (OTS), custom fitted, and custom fabricated knee orthoses, which dictate HCPCS coding and billing for these items. Physician and ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has corrected some therapy coding information in the recently released Minimum Data Set 3.0 Resident Assessment Instrument Manual. The updates affect ...

In an effort to reduce administrative burdens on hospitals and other providers, CMS has reduced the minimum medical record requests from Medicare Recovery Auditors — formerly known as Recovery Audit ...

The changes were proposed Thursday with updates to the Physician Fee Schedule and Quality Payment Program for 2019. For more than two decades, physicians have billed Medicare by thoroughly documenting ...

What the proposed rules say about ensuring access to all Medicare beneficiaries who need to avoid diabetes. In July, CMS issued its annual Physician Fee Schedule, which included a “Proposed Expansion ...