The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released its new proposed Physician Fee Schedule and Qualified Payment Program updates for 2019, and the announcement includes some big strides forward ...
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 ...
Responding to input from stakeholders who have long maintained that evaluation and management documentation guidelines are too complex and fail to meaningfully distinguish differences among code ...
CMS has given the green light to prior authorization for five types of procedures in an attempt to control “unnecessary increases” in these procedures as part of its Medicare program integrity ...
CMS has announced it will “pause” additional documentation requests from Medicare recovery audit contractors as the agency procures the next round of RAC contracts. The pause in operations will allow ...