The Trump administration is proposing sweeping changes to Medicare payment and value-based care programs that it says will ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) recently published its proposed payment rule for hospital outpatient ...

On January 1, 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service (CMS) introduced 4 Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System modifiers, known collectively as the - X(EPSU) modifiers, as a subset of ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services acknowledges that there are code combinations that may warrant an exception in reporting based on clinical documentation. Coders tend to err on the side ...

AudioEducator, a division of ProEdTech, will host a two-session Virtual Boot Camp on “CMS Modifiers: Coding, Billing, and Compliance Regulations.” When providers use modifiers incorrectly, it leads to ...

CMS recently released results of Medicare’s value-based payment modifier for 2015.[1] This is the first year in which physicians are subject to adjustments under the payment system and, in this first ...

In 2015 Medicare launched the Physician Value-Based Payment Modifier program, the largest US ambulatory care pay-for-performance program to date and a precursor to the forthcoming Merit-based ...