Halt the elimination of the Inpatient Only (IPO) list, and remove the regulatory references to the elimination of the list. These policies will take effect 1 January 2022. Hospital Price Transparency As we had discussed in a priorclient alertaddressing the pri...
CMS adjusted payments under OPPS and Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) to include the additional costs of domestically manufactured, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)-approved surgical N95 respirators, effective Jan. 1, 2023. CMS will categorize all ...
CMS proposes to add three services to the inpatient-only list, which includes services that should only be performed inpatient due to their complexity and the level of post-operative care required (CPT codes 0894T, 0895T and 0896T). Partial Hospitalization Services CMS proposes updates to t...
How is inpatient-only (IPO) list changing in 2023? In 2020, CMS announced plans to gradually eliminate the IPO list over 3 years, and in 2021 began removing large numbers of procedures from the list. However, CMS then reversed course and halted the...
CMS itself proposed five new codes to be added to the Medicare Telehealth Services list on a permanent basis: G0316 (Prolonged hospital inpatient or observation care evaluation and management service(s) beyond the total time for the primary service (when the primary service has been selected using...