An analysis by health economist Joseph Newhouse, who serves on the Congressional Budget Office Board of Health Advisors and co-chairs the 2010 Technical Review Panel on the Medicare Trustee Report, ...

CMS and the American Academy of Professional Coders hosted a Code-a-Thon on April 26, at which coding experts from AAPC responded to nearly 250 questions from more than 1,200 participants, according ...

The American Hospital Association has sent a letter to CMS asking the agency to reduce the proposed documentation and coding offset included in its 2012 Inpatient Prospective Payment System proposed ...

CMS has published online most of the edits utilized in its Medically Unlikely Edit (MUE) program to improve the accuracy of claims payments for Medicare Part B services. These edits, applied during ...

MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Intersect ENT®, Inc. (Nasdaq: XENT), a global ear, nose and throat (“ENT”) medical technology leader dedicated to transforming patient care, today announced that ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced on Tuesday a 1.5 percent cut to the amount it pays hospitals, a move designed to recover $11 billion in overpayments. The American Taxpayer ...

BOCA RATON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Sensus Healthcare, Inc. (SRTS), a medical device company specializing in highly effective, non-invasive, minimally-invasive and cost-effective treatments for ...

Although Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) are not currently evaluating facility evaluation and management (E&M) services, it may not be long before they do. In the 2010 final rule for the hospital ...