tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 44

PHYSICIANS: Chemo Demo Gets New Life

Feds will create new version of project for 2006.Oncology practices that have been depending on the $300 million chemotherapy demonstration project to stay afloat can breathe easier.That demonstration project--where physicians answer questions about pain, nausea and fatigue--expires at the end of the year. However, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will create a new project for 2006, in which physicians will collect data about how they treat any of 13 different cancers.In the demonstration, physicians will supply information to CMS about coordination of care, treatment design, and patient monitoring. CMS wants to see whether...

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.