The Centers for Medicare And Medicaid Services (CMS) earlier this month announced a new model that would advance integrated care and health‐related social needs for Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries. According to CMS, the model supports community‐based behavioral health practices to provide person...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced new measures to enhance access to behavioral health services for Medicare beneficiaries and improve hospital price transparency as part of the final rule for the calendar year 2024 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulato...
services incident to physicians’ or practitioners’ professional services) must be furnished under the direct supervision of a physician or practitioner. For Medicare purposes, direct supervision requires the supervising professional to be physically present in the same office suite as the supervisee, and...
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February 15, 2024 Anne Dwyer This month, CMS released an updated State Medicaid and CHIP Telehealth Toolkit consolidating information from previous toolkits and providing additional guidance – as required by the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act – on issues from billing best practices to strategies for...
Commencing January 1, 2017, Medicare will pay for mental and behavioral health services under new billing codes set forth in the 2017 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule (the “MPFS Final Rule†) issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on November 2, ...
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