Responding to criticisms lodged against an otherwise popular program among seniors, Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) introduced a bill to improve the way Medicare Advantage ...

A CMS-developed ICD-10-CM course, available through CITI Program's training platform, helps non-coders improve ...

Inpatient encounters for Medicare patients 65 years and older are associated with higher coding intensity compared with commercially insured, Medicaid, or self-pay hospitalizations for those same ...

Senate HELP Committee Chairman Bill Cassidy last year told the nation's largest physician association it had failed to settle his concerns over the "exorbitant fees" it charges for use of the CPT code ...

There is widespread agreement that taxpayers pay more when Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans than if those beneficiaries were enrolled in traditional Medicare. MA ...

CMS is floating the implementation of a separate add-on payment for healthcare common procedure coding system code G2211 in its 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, according to an Oct. 13 report in ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Omeros Corporation (NASDAQ: OMER) today announced that the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has assigned a permanent Healthcare Common Procedure Coding ...

Healthcare coding has fundamentally transformed from volume-driven revenue capture to compliance-first, defensible documentation standards.

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a new Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) code and New Technology Ambulatory Payment ...

Seshamani is the former director of the Center for Medicare. Parris is special assistant in the Center for Medicare. Jacobs is chief transformation officer of the Center for Medicare. Tarver is ...