The AASM has posted scorecards for the diagnostic sleep apnea testing policies of AIM Specialty Health, UnitedHealthcare and eviCore. The scorecards are the first to be developed by the AASM Payer Policy Review Committee, which is responsible for encouraging correct adoption of AASM guidelines [...]

American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) advisors and staff attended the American Medical Association (AMA) RVS Update Committee (RUC) meeting Jan. 10-13 in San Diego, where they monitored several code valuation applications relevant to sleep medicine. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) [...]

Now is the perfect time to complete your 2017 Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) reporting submission, and MIPSwizard will help you get started. Download this one-page overview to learn how quickly and easily you can complete your reporting for the 2017 transition year. If [...]

On Jan. 11 the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), an independent congressional agency charged with advising Congress on issues affecting Medicare, voted 14-2 to recommend that Congress eliminate the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). MIPS was established through the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization [...]

On Sept. 7, 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) selected Palmetto GBA to replace Cahaba Government Benefit Administrators, LLC as the Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) for Jurisdiction JJ, which includes Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee. The transition will go into effect as [...]

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), a nonpartisan legislative branch agency that provides analysis and policy advice about Medicare to Congress, recently released a proposal to repeal and replace the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). Members of MedPAC have argued that MIPS leads to [...]