The FMA has recently been notified of an opportunity for more physicians to obtain an exemption from the 2012 Medicare e-prescribing penalty. Even if you have already contacted CMS, contact CMS again. They are willing to hear your case.
Socioeconomic News
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Office of E-Health Standards and Services (OESS) is announcing that it will not initiate enforcement action for an additional three (3) months, through June 30, 2012, against any covered entity that is required to comply with the updated transactions standards adopted under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA): ASC X12 Version 5010 and NCPDP Versions D.0 and 3.0.
Physician practices have until April 1 to transition to HIPAA 5010 data standards.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced this week that ophthalmologists who participated in the 2011 Medicare Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program and were ruled ineligible for a bonus now have until April 30 to appeal that decision.
Some physicians are reporting that the Medicare payments they've received for their services in 2012 are being reduced for a failure to prescribe enough electronically in 2011, even though the doctors filed waiver requests seeking special hardship exemptions.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released new guidelines for its Ambulatory Surgery Center Quality Reporting Program.
By JIM SAUNDERS
THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA
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THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, December 4, 2012.........While Florida Republican leaders grapple with carrying out the federal Affordable Care Act, the state's primary-care physicians are poised to get a raise Jan. 1 if they treat Medicaid patients.
Member Alert-From the American Academy of Ophthalmology
Our Third Party Liaison Committee has been notified by a number of Florida ophthalmologists that they have been receiving denials from Medicare for bilateral eyelid procedures since April 1, 2013. Studies by the Government Accounting Office and the Office of Inspector General found that some providers (nationally) were being overpaid for bilateral surgery (modifier 50) procedures.
In the next several months, ophthalmology practices face important deadlines for meeting e-prescribing and quality reporting thresholds. Practices that don't begin participating - or request an exemption - in time, could face a cumulative 3.5 percent cut in Medicare reimbursement over the next two years.
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