This is the latest chapter in a long-running dispute about CMS’ authority to reduce payment for services provided at excepted off-campus PBDs. CMS will begin reprocessing 2019 claims for certain ...
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 ...
Following CMS’ announcement of proposed rules for the 2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, Community Oncology Alliance (COA) released a statement calling the proposals “puzzling.” The statement ...
CMS said it responded to complaints about its 2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS)—which it finalized today—and will not collapse 5 billing codes down to 2, which had drawn an outcry ...
Healthcare spending in the U.S. increased 4.6% in 2019 — on par with previous years and accounting for 17.7% of the nation's total gross domestic product compared with 17.6% in 2018, an analysis from ...
The Next Generation Accountable Care Organization program saved Medicare $559 million in 2019 as the program’s future remains in doubt. The National Association of ACOs released an analysis on the ...
The FY 2019 Medicare FFS estimated improper payment rate is 7.25 percent, representing $28.91 billion in improper payments, compared to the FY 2018 estimated improper payment rate of 8.12 percent, ...
New government data puts in stark relief how dramatically telehealth use exploded last year, with the share of Medicare visits conducted virtually skyrocketing from just 840,000 in 2019 to 52.7 ...