In addition, the rule proposes delaying the implementation of a new policy under which the payment rate for split (or shared) evaluation and management visits would be based on the amount of time spent by the billing practitioner. The agency has also proposed the extension of several...
To prioritize patient safety, CMS is seeking public comment on three options for updating the overall hospital quality star rating methodology and whether hospitals that performed in the bottom quartile in the Safety of Care measure group should be eligible to receive five-star ratings. The opt...
providers needed to log into four different portals in their daily workflows (patient care, documentation, and billing) due to a lack of operational standardization among different payers, and even within different plans from the same payer. Such challenges create particularly outsized...
New Jersey Expands Hospital at Home Program Stevens & Leeon12/6/2024 Providing medical care in a patient’s home has become increasingly popular with both providers and patients since the COVID-19 pandemic. Stevens & Lee previously blogged about the CMS Acute Hospital Care at Home Individual....
Also based on public comments on previous payer-to-payer data exchange policies, CMS is mandating impacted payers to exchange, with a patient’s permission, most of those same data using a Payer-to-Payer FHIR API when a patient moves between payers or has multiple concurrent payers...
September 10, 2024—Laminate Medical Technologies announced that the United States Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) granted the company’s VasQ extravascular support device a Transitional Pass-Through (TPT) Payment under billing code C8000 (support device, extravascular, for arteriovenous...