Stay on top of the latest in diagnosis coding by reviewing this chapter-by-chapter summary of the changes effective October 1. Highly anticipated, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the ICD-10-CM code descriptions, tables and index, and addendum for fiscal year 2022. Although still pending are the 2022 Official Guidelines for Coding and […]
It would lengthen the annual open enrollment period, expand the role of navigators and nix Trump-era guidelines for waivers that were criticized for allowing states to skirt coverage requirements. The Biden administration is planning to restore key parts of the Affordable Care Act that were pared back by the Trump administration as the current HHS […]
Dive Brief: CMS does not have adequate authority to ensure that hospitals will be ready for the next pandemic, and wasn’t able to regulate them well enough to know whether they were maintaining quality and safety during the COVID-19 crisis, according to a new HHS Office of Inspector General report. As COVID-19 first emerged […]