CMS and the American Academy of Professional Coders hosted a Code-a-Thon on April 26, at which coding experts from AAPC responded to nearly 250 questions from more than 1,200 participants, according ...
395 new diagnosis codes have been proposed by CMS for fiscal year 2024. CMS recently released the fiscal year 2024 inpatient prospective payment system proposed rule, and with it came the annual ...
CMS is floating the implementation of a separate add-on payment for healthcare common procedure coding system code G2211 in its 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, according to an Oct. 13 report in ...
Although Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) are not currently evaluating facility evaluation and management (E&M) services, it may not be long before they do. In the 2010 final rule for the hospital ...
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 growth of the Medicare Advantage (MA) program to over half of eligible Medicare beneficiaries has made MA payment a salient part of Medicare policy discussions. Those discussions often focus on ...