This week’s Medicare updates include two rules on price transparency, updates to medical review requirements for SNFs, annual updates to the therapy code list, and more!
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This week in Medicare updates—11/20/2019
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This week’s Medicare updates include two rules on price transparency, updates to medical review requirements for SNFs, annual updates to the therapy code list, and more!
OIG: Medicare, patients may have been overcharged for CCM services
Source: Revenue Cycle Advisor
Medicare overpaid providers $640,452 for chronic care management (CCM) services and may have overpaid outpatient facilities an additional $1.2 million for CCM, according to an Office of Inspector General (OIG) report released November 7.
 

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Brush up on reporting and clinical criteria for myocardial injuries
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Review coding and documentation guidelines for these conditions.
 

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Q&A: CMS changes scope of work for QIOs
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Q: I read that CMS changed the scope of work for the Beneficiary and Family Centered Care Quality Improvement Organizations (BFCC-QIO) Livanta and Kepro recently. What impact has that had on hospitals?

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