The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will allow Medicare Advantage plans to offer expanded telehealth coverage to beneficiaries, beginning in 2020. This change is due to implementation of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 and is detailed in the Contract Year 2020 [...]

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has made preliminary feedback on all 2018 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) data submissions available for review through the Quality Payment Program website.  All eligible clinicians who submitted MIPS 2018 data can review preliminary performance feedback [...]

The deadline for submitting 2018 data for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) is March 31. The AASM MIPSwizard provides a platform for you to efficiently submit MIPS data to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). In 2018, MIPS performance will be counted [...]

As one of the updates to the Local Coverage Determination process, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) now allows Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) the discretion to host multi-jurisdictional Contractor Advisory Committees.  Contractor Advisory Committees were established to provide a formal mechanism for [...]

Effective Feb. 20, 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a final order that reclassifies the “auto titration device for oral appliances” as class II (special controls). This type of device is identified as “a prescription home use device that determines [...]