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Therapy hours could go down and depression to go up at SNFs. A depression diagnosis is often hard to make. Clinical depression can be demonstrated in many ways and requires the subjective findings of a clinician. Some clinically depressed individuals seem to withdraw, while others can become irritable or even…
As a Medicare/Medicaid healthcare provider, you have a property right to your reimbursements for services rendered that were medically necessary. Why does it matter if your Medicare or Medicaid reimbursements constitute property rights? If you have a property right to something, it cannot be taken from you without due process…
September 26, 2019
Push to pass federal surprise balance billing legislation stalls
By Matthew Albright
An ad campaign opposing the move is raising eyebrows nationwide. We’re more than halfway into September, but if you’re like me, it feels like 2019 is already over. It doesn’t feel like I’ll have enough time to finish everything I was supposed to before the end of the year. Congress…
September 19, 2019
Federal judge tosses CMS final rule cutting Medicare payments for hospital clinic services
By Mark Spivey
The ruling marks a stinging rebuke of HHS efforts to steer some services from the hospital outpatient setting to physicians. A federal judge has ruled that a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) final rule slashing Medicare payments for certain hospital outpatient clinical evaluation and management (E&M) services to…
September 12, 2019
CMS Tightens Rules Governing Reporting on Affiliated Parties
By Duane Abbey, PhD, CFP
CMS wants to identify bad actors -– even if they are or have been affiliated with a legitimate provider. On Sept. 5, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a new final rule. There was not really a proposed rule to which comments and suggestions could be made;…
September 4, 2019
Florida signs bill mandating “immediate” notification regarding outpatient services
By Chuck Buck
The legislation raises questions regarding logistics. As residents of the U.S. Southeast prepare for Hurricane Dorian, which is expected to skirt the coast today, bringing with it hurricane-force winds and storm surges, providers there have something else to worry about as well: the MOON (Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice). As reported…
HIV/AIDS payments, in particular, are under the microscope. The new Patient-Driven Payment Model, or PDPM, makes radical changes to the Medicare payment model for nursing homes. One of the largest changes is the reimbursement rate for services provided to HIV and AIDS patients. In 2016, there were 15,807 deaths among…
August 21, 2019
How a Texas Health System Beat a $61.8 Million Billing Fraud Case
By Glenn Krauss, RHIA, BBA, CCS, CCS-P, CPUR, CCDS, C-CDI, PCS, FCS, C-CDAM
The allegations in the case focused on CCs and MCCs. EDITOR’S NOTE: This story appeared Aug. 20, 2019, in the ICD10monitor news. A Texas federal judge recently dismissed a False Claims Act lawsuit alleging that Dallas-based Baylor Scott & White Health overbilled Medicare by improperly upcoding claims. The whistleblower lawsuit, filed…
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