Backround The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid’s (CMS) Accelerated Medicare Payment program provided advance payments to a significant number of hospitals and providers to minimize the affect of revenue shortfalls brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Shortly after announcing the “Medicare Accelerated and Advance Payment Program”, CMS stopped accepting applications from Part B providers on … Read more

Early this month, the American Medical Association (AMA) published an update to the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT­­­) code set.  The update includes the additional code “99072” as a response to measures adopted by medical practices and health care organizations to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, while continuing to provide high quality, in-person care to … Read more