Someone emailed me a very interesting question about MIPS performance. By way of background, the Merit Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) consists of 4 weighted categories which this year are: Quality (30% of score), Cost (30% of score), Improvement Activities (15%...
Noridian and CGS Provider Outreach and Education have released the most frequently asked questions (FAQs) on lymphedema compression treatment items under the Lymphedema Treatment Act. An important thing to note is that if the patient has MLD services on a given date,...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), today released the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient Engagement, Information Sharing, and Public Health...
A global internet outage which began Friday continues to impact many hospitals as well as banking and transportation sectors. On Friday, a faulty software update caused technological havoc worldwide, affecting financial institutions, media companies, government...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the proposed rule for the 2025 Medicare physician fee schedule (PFS). The big question in our field was whether CMS would start “package pricing” CTPs/skin subs in the physician office. They didn’t –...
