This week’s Medicare updates include additional government guidance on wildfires and hurricanes, modifications to proof of delivery requirements, clarification on billing of immunosuppressive drugs, and more!
This week’s Medicare updates include notification of a new interest rate for Medicare Overpayments and Underpayments, revisions to the Medicare Claims Processing Manual regarding payment of services furnished by qualified nonphysician anesthetists, a fact sheet for hospitals on the 2018 Medicare EHR Incentive Program payment adjustment, and more!
Physician specialist payments could vary as much as 29% by 2020 under the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), according to the October 5 press release by Avalere. This is due to CMS’s proposal to include Medicare payments for Part B drugs in the calculation of the MIPS payment adjustment.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one of the Cooperating Parties responsible for the ICD-10-CM codes and guidelines, recently released a 2018 ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting errata. Slight changes were made to the guidelines for diabetes, hypertension, and principal diagnosis selection.
