This week’s Medicare updates include notification of a new interest rate for Medicare Overpayments and Underpayments, revisions to the Medicare Claims Processing Manual regarding payment of services furnished by qualified nonphysician anesthetists, a fact sheet for hospitals on the 2018 Medicare EHR Incentive Program payment adjustment, and more!
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This week in Medicare updates—10/18/2017
Source: Revenue Cycle Advisor

This week’s Medicare updates include notification of a new interest rate for Medicare Overpayments and Underpayments, revisions to the Medicare Claims Processing Manual regarding payment of services furnished by qualified nonphysician anesthetists, a fact sheet for hospitals on the 2018 Medicare EHR Incentive Program payment adjustment, and more!  
Payment variability predicted to grow for physician specialists
Source: Revenue Cycle Advisor
Physician specialist payments could vary as much as 29% by 2020 under the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), according to the October 5 press release by Avalere. This is due to CMS’s proposal to include Medicare payments for Part B drugs in the calculation of the MIPS payment adjustment.
 

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Guiding outpatient clinical documentation improvement
Source: Revenue Cycle Advisor
Patient care continues to move from the inpatient setting to outpatient. With this change, the challenge of securing comprehensive documentation that articulates the services rendered and the patient care provided now needs to extend across the care continuum.
 

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Q&A: Prioritizing case management functions
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Q: What case management function is the most important for achieving the deliverables expected?

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