This week’s Medicare updates include a transmittal implementing quarterly updates to the DMEPOS competitive bidding program files, a transmittal implementing 14 newly waived CLIA tests, the quarterly update to the NCCI procedure-to-procedure edits, and more!
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This week in Medicare updates—1/16/2019
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This week’s Medicare updates include a transmittal implementing quarterly updates to the DMEPOS competitive bidding program files, a transmittal implementing 14 newly waived CLIA tests, the quarterly update to the NCCI procedure-to-procedure edits, and more!
Revenue Integrity Symposium call for speakers
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The National Association of Healthcare Revenue Integrity is currently seeking speakers to present at the 2019 Revenue Integrity Symposium (RIS), to be held October 15–16, 2019, at the Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida.
 

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Solving master patient index conundrums during EHR consolidation: Lessons learned at Avera Health
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Use real-life strategies to prevent and fix master patient index errors during EHR consolidations.
 

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Q&A: Using the PDCA model for quality process improvement
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Q: I have heard of the Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) process for quality management. Can you explain how this process works?

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