As a reminder, Covid-19 Accelerated and Advanced Payments repayment will begin this year. The Continuing Appropriations Act established that repayment will begin “one year from the issuance date of each provider or supplier’s accelerated or advanced payment” Medicare will automatically recoup 25 percent of the Medicare payments owed for eleven months, If full recoupment is
Everything you need to know about billing Medicare for COVID-19 Vaccines, and certain Monoclonal Antibodies can be found from the link below: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-part-b-drug-average-sales-price/covid-19-vaccines-and-monoclonal-antibodies CMS has created a provider toolkit to provide further guidance and can be found from the link below: https://www.cms.gov/covidvax-provider
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused healthcare personnel to change how they operate to continue providing essential services to patients. Ensuring immunization services are maintained or reinitiated is essential for protecting individuals and communities from vaccine-preventable diseases and outbreaks and reducing the burden of respiratory illness during the upcoming influenza season. The link below contains a
Find the information and guidance you need to provide the COVID-19 vaccine. We have many resources about coverage and billing for providers, state Medicaid plans, and private health plans from the link below. https://www.cms.gov/covidvax
The Senate passed legislation last week to extend the pause on the 2% sequestration reduction through December 31, 2021. The house is expected to take up the bill the week of April 13, 2021, when it returns for a session after the holidays. It is fully expected that the bill will be passed through the
By: Dr.Chelsia Bhatti The Holiday season of 2020 is going to be like no other holiday time in history that any of us has ever experienced. COVID-19 started many months ago, and unfortunately, we have entered a resurgence of COVID cases across the country recently-and this time it is everywhere, not just in pockets. In
As we learned earlier this week, there has been a push for approval from the FDA for emergency use of a COVID vaccine. On the heels of the news, the AMA announced new CPT codes for each of the two COVID vaccines as well as administration codes for each vaccine. Releasing the CPT codes ahead
There is some good news for providers who requested and received Medicare advance payments. H.R. 8337 Continuing Appropriates Act, 2021, and other Extensions Act states made some changes for repayment for of the Accelerated/Advance Payment that was offered to providers. The changes are: 1. The automatic payments will be extended to now begin one year
This information is current as of 03/27/2020 Our first thoughts: Here at AIEMM, during this time of crisis, above all we hope you and your families are safe. All clinicians, Nurses, Firefighters, police officers, EMT’s, truck drivers, public transportation, garbage people, grocery stores clerk, stockers etc., gas stations and the restaurants who are still trying
As tradition always had it, workers would clock in at their jobs at 9am and clock out at 5 pm. Sometimes, there would be instances in which the employees would be required to come into work early or stay late. With the advent of technology, however, the world evolved and came closer together. People were