The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), today released the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient Engagement, Information Sharing, and Public Health...
A global internet outage which began Friday continues to impact many hospitals as well as banking and transportation sectors. On Friday, a faulty software update caused technological havoc worldwide, affecting financial institutions, media companies, government...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the proposed rule for the 2025 Medicare physician fee schedule (PFS). The big question in our field was whether CMS would start “package pricing” CTPs/skin subs in the physician office. They didn’t –...
The Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) proposed rule has come out! It will take time to read and digest so details will follow. At first glance, there are no changes to Cellular Tissue Product /skin substitute payment, which remain under package pricing in...
The Biden administration announced the termination of a program that provided more than $2.55 billion in accelerated and advance Medicare payments to over 4,200 providers (hospitals and physicians) that suffered cash flow disruptions following the Change Healthcare...
