12/19/07 | Payment Matters: Hospital Outpatient Departments Will Be Required to Use NDC Code for Outpatient Drugs Billed to Medicaid Beginning January 1, 2008; Final Changes and Updates to CMS's Revised ASC Payment System; Payment for Preventive and Screening Services for SNF Residents
12/04/07 | Payment Matters: RAC Attacks: News From the Front; CMS Adds to List of Medicare Telehealth Services; Physician Fee Schedule Payments Now Require 9-Digit Zipcodes for Place of Service
11/12/07 | Payment Matters: CMS Issues Final Policy and Payment Changes for Hospital Outpatient Services; CMS Delays Certain Stark Provisions; Mandatory Hospice Detail Billing Compliance Date Moved to July 1, 2008
11/08/07 | Payment Matters: CMS Unveils 2008 Physician Fee Schedule; CMS Puts Clinical Trial Policy On Hold Again; Requests for Approval for All Hospital Transplant Programs Due by December 26
11/05/07 | Payment Matters - Special Alert: Far Reaching Implications for Physician Diagnostic Testing Arrangements Under the 2008 Physician Fee Schedule Rule
10/24/07 | Payment Matters: CMS Issues FY 2009 Hospital Wage Index Timetable; RAC Attack; More Detail Required for 2008 Hospice Claim Data
10/10/07 | Payment Matters: OIG Rolls Out its 2008 Work Plan: What Should Providers Be Aware Of?; OIG Approves Hospital's Payments to Physicians for On-Call Services; Two or Three Times May Be the "Charm" in Correcting Deficiencies… But It Will Also Be Costly
09/27/07 | Payment Matters: To Err is Human…But It Won't Get Paid: Denial of Medicare Payment for Hospital-acquired Conditions; Physician-owned Hospitals Required to Provide Notice to Patients; CMS Clarifies SNF Billing Requirements for Beneficiaries Enrolled in Medicare Advantage Plans;
09/14/07 | Payment Matters: Final FY 2008 Home Health Prospective Payment Refinement and Rate Update; Providers May Charge for Missed Appointments, But…; Claiming Medicare Bad Debts
08/29/07 | Payment Matters: Reporting Extension Locations — Updating the 855; CMS Publishes Final Skilled Nursing Facility PPS Rule; Updating the Medicare Clinical Trial Policy: One More Time…
08/15/07 | Payment Matters: CMS Issues Final FY 2008 IPPS Rate and Policy Changes; Hospital's Failure to Conduct Coordination of Benefits Gives Rise to Qui Tam Settlement; CMS Alters Medicare Payment Structure for ASCs
07/31/07 | Payment Matters: CMS Extends Time for Publication of the Much Anticipated Final PRRB Rule; Good News and Bad: A Look at the Proposed 2008 Physician Fee Schedule; CMS Issues Proposed Policy and Payment Changes for Hospital Outpatient Services