Midwest AAOE is Turning on the Style
at the Plaza!
New Location......Same Great Program
Save the Date for the Fall Meeting of the Midwest AAOE
October 18-19, 2013
Embassy Suites Kansas City Plaza
Kansas City, MO
Please mark your calendars and plan to attend the Fall Meeting. The Program Committee is getting to work on the agenda. We look forward to announcing the meeting details, registration and housing in the coming months.
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CBO Budget Score Released
In-Office Ancillary Services Exception and Other Issues Addressed
On May 17th, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its score of President Obama's fiscal year 2014 budget request. The analysis is based on CBO's "economic projections and estimating assumptions and models" and incorporates estimates by the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation. According to CBO estimates, which reflect the assumption that current tax and spending laws will remain unchanged, the deficit would total $642 billion in 2013 and the cumulative deficit over the 2014 to 2023 period would amount to $6.3 trillion.
Given that the budget contained a limiting of the in-office ancillary services (IOAS) exception to the Stark Law, the score was highly anticipated by the medical community. However, the CBO score found a cost savings of just $1.8 billion over ten years from limiting IOAS, which is well below other estimates. While the medical community still finds fault with how the savings were calculated, the score does show claims about overutilization to be substantially overstated.
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ICD-10 Resources for FFS Providers Now Available
CMS has released new and updated MLN products to assist Medicare providers in learning about ICD-10. These products are posted on the ICD-10 Medicare FFS Provider Resources web page and include an MLN Matters® Special Edition Article on institutional services split claims billing instructions; fact sheets covering basic information about ICD-10, the use of the General Equivalence Mappings (GEMs), and the ICD-10 implementation date; and a booklet of Frequently Asked Questions about the GEMS.
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"Medicare Learning Network® Suite of Products and Resources for Compliance Officers" Educational Web Guide - Released
The "Medicare Learning Network® Suite of Products and Resources for Compliance Officers" Educational Web Guide (ICN 908525) was released and is now available in downloadable format. This educational web guide is designed to provide education on the many compliance issues facing health care professionals today. It includes direct links to information arrayed by specialty to address the detailed compliance issues distinctive to individual provider types to assist in accurate claims review and submission.
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