tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2007 Issue 35

INDUSTRY NOTES: Seize Last Chance To Avoid 10-Percent Cut

Plus: Medicare will start rejecting claims with non-matching NPIsIt's crunch time: If Congress doesn't act in September to prevent the 9.9 percent cut that's scheduled for Jan. 1, there may not be another chance, warn Capitol Hill insiders. The House and Senate both passed bills that would expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), but only the House version also gets rid of the 15-percent pay cut you're facing in 2008 and 2009. Top Senators are already indicating they want to rescue your Medicare pay later on, according to press accounts. But "later" may never arrive. "Given...

To read the full article, sign in and subscribe to tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement.


Keep pace with evolving Medicare regulations — and onboard your team — with timely analysis of critical updates interpreted in an easy-to-follow, easy-to-apply format. Your subscription to TCI's Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement Alert will equip you to navigate code and guideline changes, CCI edits, and revisions to modifiers, payer policies, the fee schedule, OIG target areas, and more.

  • Current newsletters added each month
  • Fully searchable archives - over 4200 articles
  • ALL years/issues back to 2003 organized by year and issue
  • Codes mentioned in articles are linked to Code Information pages
  • Code Information pages link back to related articles
Access to this feature is available in the following products:
  • tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement +Archives

demo
request yours today
 subscribe
start today
 newsletter
free subscription

Thank you for choosing Find-A-Code, please Sign In to remove ads.