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 ...
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 ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has posted a video on YouTube featuring footage from its April ICD-10 Code-a-Thon, according to an AAPC report. The Code-a-Thon was held in collaboration ...
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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 ...
As a result of insurers “upcoding” patient diagnoses, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) overpaid Medicare Advantage (MA) by $50 billion (or 13 percent) in 2024, according to the ...
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, an independent federal agency that advises Congress on Medicare, is considering a recommendation to establish national guidelines for hospital emergency ...
The fiscal year 2024 ICD-10-CM codes are now effective, and they will impact your reimbursement. Earlier this year, CMS announced the addition of 395 new diagnosis codes, 25 deletions to the diagnosis ...
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced on Tuesday a 1.5 percent cut to the amount it pays hospitals, a move designed to recover $11 billion in overpayments. The American Taxpayer ...
The Stark Law restricts financial relationships between a physician and any entity that furnishes and bills Medicare for DHS (a DHS Entity), and many of the most commonly used Stark Law exceptions ...