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This week in Medicare updates—4/14/2021

This week’s Medicare updates include proposed rules for the inpatient psychiatric facility prospective payment system, skilled nursing facility prospective payment system, and the hospice payment rate update.

AHA: CMS should overturn mid-build denials issued to PBDs

Source: Revenue Cycle Advisor

CMS should rescind denials recently issued to certain off-campus provider-based departments (PBD) that applied for the mid-build exception under the 21st Century Cures Act, the American Hospital Association (AHA) said in a March 25 letter to CMS.

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Driving meaningful improvement for healthcare quality scores

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Hospitals are applying high reliability traits to drive improvement in new departments. Learn how to apply these methods to leverage clinical documentation integrity as a quality improvement function.

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Q&A: Medical necessity documentation

Source: Revenue Cycle Advisor

Q: One of the biggest challenges for case management directors is gaining the physician’s cooperation with documentation as they continue to face high patient volumes. What approaches should be taken to get physicians on the same page as case management directors?

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Upcoming CMS Events

Thursday, 4/15 - Changes in the Hospice Item Set Manual V3.00 Webinar

Thursday, 4/29 - Medicare Part A Cost Report: Easier File Uploads for e-Filing in MCReF

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