The American Medical Association (AMA) released four new Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) codes for bivalent COVID-19 vaccines for young children.
In this position paper, the NAHRI Advisory Board breaks down the steps involved in writing and submitting comments on proposed rules and policy changes and discusses why this activity is essential for revenue integrity professionals.
Q: If an anesthesiologist performs a presurgical or postsurgical block for pain control and it is performed in a holding area rather than in the operating room (OR), can we bill a separate facility (technical) fee for that? Or would this be bundled with OR services?
CMS extended enforcement discretion, pending future rulemaking, for providing good faith estimates (GFE) for uninsured or self-pay patients that include price estimates from co-providers or co-facilities. The agency announced the pause in a December 2 FAQ, citing technical limitations.
CMS recently released new hospital price transparency sample formats. The formats, which come in wide, tall, and plain, may be used by hospitals to meet the requirement to make standard charges publicly available in a machine-readable file.
Revenue integrity experts, we want to hear from you. NAHRI is currently seeking speakers for the 2023 Revenue Integrity Symposium (RIS), to be held September 18–19, 2023, in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Automation and similar technologies are increasingly prevalent in revenue integrity but understanding best practices and long-term implications is still a major challenge. Learn how one organization is tackling misconceptions to make breakthroughs in deploying automation.
