Clinical Resources Articles
These sleep medicine articles include updates about coding and reimbursement, new practice guidelines, and telemedicine. To view our case study of the month, visit the AASM sleep medicine case studies page.
On Sept. 16 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued performance results for two ACO initiatives: the Pioneer ACO Model and the Medicare Shared Savings Program ACOs.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced in an educational article published in late August that it would conduct three testing weeks in advance of the Oct. 1, 2015 implementation date of ICD-10.
On Aug 29 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a rule finalizing policy for EHR Meaningful Use. The rule includes a delay to the stage 3 meaningful use implementation for some reporters as well as more flexibility in certified EHR technology.
WPS Medicare recently released a following statement on its provider home page and via its eNews email alert regarding a reversal of claims denials.
The Department of Health and Human Services recently finalized a new implementation date for ICD-10-CM. Providers will be required to implement ICD-10-CM on October 1, 2015.
The year 2014 is an important time for Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), the quality incentive program developed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
The Open Payments website, which manufacturers of drugs, devices, biologicals and medical supplies use to report transfers of value to physicians and teaching hospitals as required under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, has been temporarily shut down.
Claims data shows that the sleep medicine specialty code is only rarely used by providers of sleep medicine services. The sleep field is therefore not experiencing the benefits of having our own specialty code in the Medicare system. If your practice is at least 50 percent sleep, the AASM encourages you to make sleep medicine your primary specialty in the Medicare provider enrollment system.
A final rule published Aug. 4 in the Federal Register by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services establishes that the compliance date for the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10) is Oct. 1, 2015.
Physician Payment Sunshine Act requires manufacturers of drugs, devices, biologicals or medical suppliers to report annual certain payments or transfers of value to physicians and teaching hospitals. This data will become public on Sept. 1, 2014. Physicians do have the opportunity to review reports on payment and transfers of value and have the right to challenge reports that may be false, inaccurate or misleading.