Medicare & Medicaid
Diagnosing patients during the mild cognitive impairment stage could both save money and make the condition more manageable in the long run.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services should update its county benchmark calculation in the 2019 final notice being published Monday, April 2, AHIP says.
The problem has only gotten worse, and increasingly expensive, in recent years as more and more infants are born with opioid withdrawal symptoms.
Hospital legal spokesman blamed complex interpretation billing classification rules, said hospital cooperated fully with DOJ investigation.
Government watchdog estimated that during a 6-month audit period, Medicare paid hundreds of millions for services that did not comply with the agency's requirements.
Hospital was able to better grasp what it was was already doing well, and what it was not, in terms of clinical documentation thanks to homegrown software.
States qualify by having at least 85 percent of their Medicaid population in managed care or by reducing provider payments rates.
An electronic prescription drug monitoring program network would track controlled substance prescriptions in a state.
The FoundationOne CDx test is the first breakthrough-designated in vitro diagnostic test and can detect genetic mutations in 324 genes.
Moving more physicians toward APMs is a "top strategic goal," says CMS Chief Medical Officer Kate Goodrich.