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Hendershot Cowart P.C.

Qlarant, Novitas Audits Escalate as Medicare Skin Substitutes Spending Hits $1.6 Billion, CMS Seeks Evidence of Clinical...

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The wound care industry faces unprecedented scrutiny as Medicare Part B expenditures for skin substitutes exceeded $1.6 billion in the fourth quarter of 2023 alone. The spending surge has triggered a wave of skin substitute...more

Ankura

Is there room for AI in the ICU? Guiding Principles and Compliance Considerations

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers unprecedented opportunities to enhance patient care, streamline clinical documentation, and support medical decision-making processes. More and more healthcare professionals find themselves...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

CMS issues rule mandating vaccination for employees of Medicare/Medicaid facilities

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued an interim final rule requiring that all staff working in Medicare- or Medicaid-certified facilities be vaccinated against COVID-19. The rule took effect on Friday and...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

CMS Interim Final Rule: Hard Vaccine Mandate for Healthcare Facilities

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On November 4, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released an advance copy of the Interim Final Rule (IFR) related to COVID-19 vaccines for most of the entities covered by applicable Conditions of...more

Amundsen Davis LLC

CMS Releases Interim Final Rule Requiring COVID-19 Vaccination for Employees and Suppliers

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Thursday, November 4th the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its interim final rule requiring all employees and certain suppliers of most Medicare and Medicaid certified providers to be fully vaccinated...more

Oberheiden P.C.

Federal Authorities Place Cardiovascular Stress Testing Under the Microscope

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Cardiovascular stress testing to diagnose patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) and other related types of conditions can be a highly-effective tool in many cases. In fact, many cardiologists routinely recommend stress...more

Oberheiden P.C.

5 Defense Strategies for MAC/RAC Audits in 2025

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Medicare pays billions of dollars in fraudulently billed claims each year. To recoup as many fraudulent reimbursements as possible, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) relies on various enforcement...more

Maynard Nexsen

Rewriting the Physician Office Visit Note: Ensuring Compliance in Medical Documentation in 2021

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Are you prepared for the sweeping changes made to the “traditional” 1995 and 1997 evaluation and management (E/M) guidelines for office and outpatient visit codes you have been accustomed to for two decades? ...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

2021 Changes for Evaluation and Management Services

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E/M office visit historical background - For years, providers have voiced their concerns about the amount of data entry required for Evaluation and Management (E/M) visits. Many state they spend twice as much time...more

Baker Donelson

HHS Seeks to Ease Burden of Hurricane on Health Care Organizations

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As Hurricane Harvey continues to have a devastating impact throughout Southeast Texas, Louisiana and the Southeast, our thoughts are with the hundreds of thousands struggling through this difficult time....more

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