As with many other physicians of a certain age, I have had the opportunity to practice patient care in both the worlds of paper and electronic charting. Granted, as a…
The 2025 updates to the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) are now in effect, running from October 1, 2024, through September 30, 2025. While perhaps not…
Interoperability has been a longstanding goal for healthcare: The promise of being able to exchange data seamlessly between health information networks has been a goal the industry has been working…
Today I would like to elaborate on recent remarks from Colleen Ejak regarding the 2025 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) Proposed Rule regarding quality metrics and the inclusion of the…
The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services this week released a report on complaints and enforcement efforts concerning the Public Health Service Act, which includes the No Surprises Act. As…
If you have been listening to the discussions on Monitor Monday and Talk Ten Tuesday about the use of the new HCPCS code G2211, you know there remains some uncertainty…
The proposed new Medicare billing codes in the proposed Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) for 2025 include three specific codes for digital mental health treatment (DMHT) relating to professional services involving…
The 60-day Refund Rule, created by the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), requires providers to report and return Medicare and Medicaid overpayments within 60 days of identifying…
The American Medical Association’s coding panel, which is responsible for creating medical billing codes, is set to meet September 19-21 in Albuquerque where it will consider yet another proposal to…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS') proposed calendar year 2025 physician fee schedule rule, out Wednesday, proposed an assortment of new payments and coverage for digital health services,…
An unprecedented number of individuals are now enrolled in Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) Marketplace health insurance plans – and federal officials this week signaled that the trend…
While CMS (the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) usually releases new rules in the afternoon, on July 10 they chose to release the 2025 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS)…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that payments under the Accelerated and Advance Payment (AAP) Program for the Change Healthcare/Optum Payment Disruption (CHOPD) will conclude on…
The US health care industry continues a predominant fee-for-service provider reimbursement model, despite trying to shift to a value-based care model for now approaching two decades. Moreover, providers continue to…
I recently saw a notable update on the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement or TEFCA, a federal program intended to improve health data interoperability across the healthcare industry. …
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed an episodic payment model, the Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM). This is one of CMS’s “innovation” models. If it makes…