In October 2019, President Trump issued Executive Order #13890, titled “Protecting and Improving Medicare for Our Nation’s Seniors.” Section 5a of this order states “Within 1 year of the date of this order, the Secretary shall propose reforms to the Medicare program to enable providers to spend more time with patients
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A few weeks ago, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released their final rule for 2019. In that release, CMS included the 2019 Medicare fee schedule, a change to the MIPS participation rules, and significant changes to evaluation and management coding and documentation.
Read MoreQuestions answered about balance billing patients under the Medicare Advantage Plan.
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On November 2nd, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the final rule with comment for the second year of the Quality Payment Program (calendar year 2018), as required by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), as well as an interim final rule with comment.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released images of the newly designed Medicare card. The new Medicare card contains a unique, randomly-assigned number that replaces the current Social Security-based number.
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