On July 30, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced “Data at the Point of Care” (DPC), a pilot program that will provide clinicians with access to claims data. The pilot program follows on the heels of the recently proposed Interoperability and Patient Access Proposed Rule, which would require regulated health plans to make patient data available through an application programming interface (API). These actions are also part of the MyHealthEData initiative spearheaded by the White House Office of American Innovation.…
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CMS Revises National Coverage Determination for Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators
On February 15, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a Decision Memo outlining revisions to its 2005 National Coverage Determination (NCD) for Implantable Automatic Defibrillators (ICDs) . The updated NCD includes changes to the covered indications for ICDs, new patient criteria and exceptions to waiting periods for symptomatic patients with certain histories before an ICD will be considered a covered device by Medicare. The final updates follow CMS’ review of comments received following its release of a Proposed Decision Memorandum in November 2017. The Decision Memo …
OIG Recommends More Monitoring of Hospital Compliance With Two-Midnight Rule
The Office of Inspector General (OIG), Health & Human Services recently released a report detailing its analysis of hospital compliance with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) “two-midnight” rule during fiscal year 2014, which allows Medicare payment for inpatient claims only if the treating physician expects that the patient will require hospital services at least two midnights. The two-midnight policy was implemented by CMS to, in part, reduce inconsistent use of inpatient and outpatient hospital stays and address improper payment for short inpatient stays. The OIG found that hospitals …
