The Hospital Outpatient Payment Panel recommended CMS change the supervision requirements for 15 HCPCS and CPT ® codes during its second meeting this year in August. CMS released details of the meeting September 24.
Providers will now soon need only one unique health plan identifier when billing insurance companies. CMS finalized the Administrative Simplification: Adoption of Standard for Unique Health Plan Identifier rule released August 24.
Inpatient facilities received mixed news on proposed changes to the list of complications and comorbidities (CC) and major CCs (MCC) in the fiscal year (FY) 2013 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) final rule , released August 1.
The National Center for Health Statistics, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and CMS have posted updated files for ICD-10-CM for 2013.
CMS is proposing two major changes as part of the 2013 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) proposed rule , released July 6. One has to do with how CMS proposes to calculate APC relative weights and the other with the reimbursement level for separately payable drugs and biologicals without pass-through status.
CMS reassigned 10 codes to status indicator K (paid under OPPS; separate APC payment) as part of the July update to the Integrated Outpatient Code Editor .