Editor’s Note:
This edition includes a new section, Information for Your Medicare Patients, which mirrors information your patients get from Medicare. We’ll include occasional messages to help you answer questions from your patients.
- Hospital Price Transparency: Requirements Effective January 1
- IRF Provider Preview Reports: Review Your Data by October 26
- LTCH Provider Preview Reports: Review Your Data by October 26
- Therapeutic Injections and Infusions: Comparative Billing Report
- SNF Healthcare-Associated Infections Confidential Dry Run Report
- COVID-19: Optimizing Health Care PPE and Supplies
- Hospice Quality Reporting Program News
- October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
- Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) PPS Changes
- Quarterly Update to the National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) Procedure-to-Procedure (PTP) Edits, Version 27.0, Effective January 1, 2021
- Change to the Payment of Allogeneic Stem Cell Acquisition Services — Revised
- New Physician Specialty Code for Micrographic Dermatologic Surgery (MDS) and Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) and a New Supplier Specialty Code for Home Infusion Therapy Services — Revised
- October 2020 Update of the Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System — Revised
- October 2020 Update of the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) — Revised
- Penalty for Delayed Request for Anticipated Payment (RAP) Submission — Implementation — Revised
- Quarterly Update for Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule and Laboratory Services Subject to Reasonable Charge Payment — Revised
- ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee Meeting Materials
- SNF Consolidated Billing Web-Based Training Course — Revised
Information for Medicare Patients
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