A new JAMA study shows that a new Medicare billing code may have benefited specialists more than the primary care physicians it was designed to help most.
A new study published in JAMA found that a new Medicare add-on billing code boosted pay significantly for specialists. The study analyzed Medicare claims data from 2024, the first year that the G22111 ...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is freezing enrollment in Elevance Health's Medicare Advantage-Prescription Drug Plans for alleged noncompliance with risk adjustment and data submission ...
Vice President JD Vance and CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, MD, announced a series of actions affecting Medicare and Medicaid, including a $259.5 million deferral of federal Medicaid funding in Minnesota ...
Nearly five years have passed since the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared the first prescription digital therapeutic (PDT), and nearly another dozen have followed. PDTs are defined as ...
The growth of the Medicare Advantage (MA) program to over half of eligible Medicare beneficiaries has made MA payment a salient part of Medicare policy discussions. Those discussions often focus on ...
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395 new diagnosis codes have been proposed by CMS for fiscal year 2024. CMS recently released the fiscal year 2024 inpatient prospective payment system proposed rule, and with it came the annual ...
The fiscal year 2024 ICD-10-CM codes are now effective, and they will impact your reimbursement. Earlier this year, CMS announced the addition of 395 new diagnosis codes, 25 deletions to the diagnosis ...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced on Tuesday a 1.5 percent cut to the amount it pays hospitals, a move designed to recover $11 billion in overpayments. The American Taxpayer ...