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The Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) program, slated to begin Jan. 1, 2021, has been postponed. A notice on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) website states that the educational and operations testing period will now continue through 2021. “We encourage stakeholders to use this period to learn, test and prepare for the AUC […]
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Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar has once again renewed the public health emergency (PHE) for the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). Set to expire Oct. 23, the PHE is now set to expire Jan. 21, 2021 — one year after declaring a PHE for COVID-19 in the United States. The renewal has many implications, including […]
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One I need to know what that code is used for if anyone knows and two I need to know if we are clia waived if this is a blood test we can do in house or if it has to be done in a lab setting.
Any answers are appreciated. My chief operating officer wants me to figure this out this morning so any help is welcome
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) filed a notice in the Federal Register on Nov. 17 announcing the 2018 inpatient hospital deductible and hospital and extended care services coinsurance amounts for services furnished under Medicare Part A. Effective Jan. 1, 2018, the inpatient hospital deductible will be $ 1,340; the daily coinsurance amounts will be: […]
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Eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals participating in the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) and/or Medicare Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program have been granted a little more time to submit their electronic Clinical Quality Measure (eCQM) data for the 2016 reporting period. The original deadline of Feb. 28 has been extended to March 13. According […]
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) evaluation and management (E/M) Documentation Guidelines (DG) allow providers to use an extended history of present illness (HPI), as defined by the 1997 evaluation and management documentation guidelines (DG), with the remaining elements of the 1995 DG. This means that “the status of three or more chronic conditions” […]
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