What it Takes to Get Medicare to Pay for Ambulance Transports
Ensuring coverage of ambulance services for your end-stage renal dialysis (ESRD) patients requires diligence. Dialysis facility ambulance transports often do no meet medical necessity criteria, as...
View ArticleKidney Transplant Dx. Coding
By: Gouri Pathare MBBS, CPC Kidney transplantation is a treatment option for most patients with End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). The procedure may be deceased-donor (cadaveric) or living-donor...
View ArticleCMS Puts ESRD Home Dialysis Policy in Writing
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has added language to its billing guidelines for home dialysis (less than full month) to be consistent with its policy for partial-month,...
View ArticleCMS Releases Final Rules for 2016 Payment
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued final rules detailing how the agency will pay for services provided to beneficiaries in Medicare by physicians and other healthcare...
View ArticleTelehealth Services See Little Growth in 2017
If telehealth is the wave of the future, we’re still in the Dark Ages. The public has an ongoing opportunity to submit requests to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for adding or...
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