The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will extend through 2025 the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced model, which was set to expire this year.
The AHA released a guide offering research, resources and case studies to help organizations build a community health worker program to strengthen and sustain their health care workforce.
We are a critical access hospital (CAH). We provide smoking cessation therapy in our cardiac rehab department. The documentation is done and signed by a respiratory therapist (RT), and we are currently billing this as a professional charge. My question is, can we bill this on a UB-04 as a facility charge only and still allow our RT or other ancillary staff to perform it?
A nonprofit legal group filed a class action lawsuit against Mountain View Regional Medical Center in Las Cruces, alleging that the hospital has illegally sued hundreds of low-income New Mexico patients who should be protected by a new state law from legal action over unpaid bills.
It usually takes a year or more for the supply chain bottlenecks and rising wages that drive up prices to factor into the contracts that dictate what consumers and insurance plans pay.
