The annual Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Reports are scheduled to be distributed May 5th through May 12th.

All Medicare users of the FISS DDE system must recertify by May 2nd or risk interruption in Medicare payments. 

Official ICD-10 implementation deadline delayed to no earlier than Oct. 1, 2015.

President Obama signed the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014, which continues the current Medicare Part B rates and therapy caps exceptions process and delays the ICD-10 deadline.

Pursuant to the changes stemming from the elimination of the “Improvement Standard,” CMS has issued revised Advance Beneficiary Notice (ABN) language.

National Government Services offers guidance on the most common documentation errors that lead to denials in therapy payments.

New guidance from CMS updates hospital discharge codes and readmission policies that may impact post-acute Medicare coverage.

CMS is instructing providers to transition to the new HETS for Medicare eligibility information.