Hospice Wage Index and Payment Rate Update; Hospice Quality Reporting Requirements; and Updates on Payment Reform 2014 Final Rule

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This final rule updates the hospice payment rates and the wage index for fiscal year (FY) 2014, and continues the phase out of the wage index budget neutrality adjustment factor (BNAF). Including the FY 2014 15 percent BNAF reduction, the total 5 year cumulative BNAF reduction in FY 2014 will be 70 percent. The BNAF […]

Coding Mammography: Screening vs Diagnostic

SNF PPS and Consolidated Billing 2014 Final Rule

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This final rule updates the payment rates used under the prospective payment system for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) for fiscal year (FY) 2014. In addition, it revises and rebases the SNF market basket, revises and updates the labor related share, and makes certain technical and conforming revisions in the regulations text. This final rule also […]

OPPS Proposed Rule 2014

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Medicare and Medicaid Programs:  Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems and Quality Reporting Programs; Organ Procurement Organizations; Quality Improvement Organizations; Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentive Program; Provider Reimbursement Determinations and Appeals This proposed rule would revise the Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) and the Medicare ambulatory surgical center (ASC) […]

IRF Transition: (Part 3 Lining Up to Your Wave) ICD-10-CM and IRF Impairment Group Codes

Medical Loss Ratio Correction 2014 Final Rule

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This document corrects technical, typographical, and cross-referencing errors in the final rule that appeared in the May 23, 2013 Federal Register titled “Medicare Program; Medical Loss Ratio Requirements for the Medicare Advantage and the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Programs.” View this Final Rule in the Federal Register for July 22, 2013 View the preceding Final Rule […]

SESSION 1 Watching the Wave Approach

Screening and Diagnostic Mammography

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CMS Guidance for documentation, coding and billing of mammography dated August, 2012. This article is from the Medicare Learning Network.