tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2008 Issue 17

Industry Notes: CMS Adds To List Of 'Never Events'

Plus: Florida radiologist fined $7 million Get ready for nine new "never events," if CMS gets its way. Last year, CMS issued a list of services that Medicare will consider non-payable beginning in October, including surgeries to retrieve objects that the surgeon accidentally left behind during a procedure, as well as seven additional so-called "never events." CMS will require hospitals to disclose whether the patient had these eight conditions upon admission. If not, Medicare will not reimburse hospitals for these conditions because they were acquired during the hospital stay. CMS says that the halt in reimbursement will...

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.