The White House Administration’s top Medicare official is stepping down from his post. Jonathan Blum, the principal deputy administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has been with …
CMS wants to focus on improper payment prevention, but will providers see fewer burdens? With Medicare’s “two midnight rule” set to take effect later this year and audit appeals facing …
Medicare officials want to make it harder for their recovery-audit companies to collect fees for auditing hospital and doctor bills. Earlier this week, the Government Accountability Office gave the CMS …
Weeks after the President signed the temporary Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) “doc fix” bill that included a one-year extension to ICD-10 implementation, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) …
Industry stakeholders support CMS’s plans to expand the PMD demo—with a few tweaks. “I’m all for it,” said Peggy Walker, billing specialist at VGM. “I’m ready for more prior auths.” …
On April 9, 2014, the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General’s (OIG) Office of Evaluation and Inspections (OEI) issued a report (OEI-01-12-00390) entitled “Limited …
Recent highly publicized security breaches at Target and Neiman Marcus made information security front-page news. Now the latest bug nicknamed “Heartbleed”—which impacts the very code (Open SSL) that keeps servers …
President Barack Obama, recently, put his signature on the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014. In effect, one provision of the new law served to delay ICD-10 implementation until …
