Publications

In a recent report, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) determined that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) improperly paid practitioners for some telehealth claims associated with services that did not meet Medicare requirements. CMS released the Medicare Telehealth Services video to help you bill correctly. Here are some additional resources:

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Last week the Society, along with the American Medical Association and other national organizations, joined together to write the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in expressing support for the policies finalized by CMS to address the historic undervaluation of Evaluation and Management (E/M) codes (office visits) utilized by physicians who deliver care to millions of Medicare patients.

The groups specifically supported:

• Higher physician work relative value units (RVUs) for new and established office visit codes that will result in additional
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The deadline to submit your 2019 registration and attestation information for the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program is March 2:

• Medicare eligible hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs): Attest through the QualityNet Secure Portal
• Medicaid eligible professionals, eligible hospitals, and CAHs: Follow the requirements of your state Medicaid agency
• Dual-eligible hospitals and CAHs: Attest through the QualityNet Secure Portal (not your state Medicaid agency)

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The Nursing Home Workforce Quality Act (H.R. 4468) is bipartisan legislation, introduced by Reps. Dwight Evans (D-PA) and Ron Estes (R-KS), that will help address the critical shortage of Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) by ensuring that CNAs have access to the quality training that they need. There are currently 13 co-sponsors.

Nursing home facilities that face $10,843 or more in civil monetary penalties (CMPs) are subject to the revocation of their training program and are unable to create a new program for a mandatory two-year period. This new legislation will allow...