CMS has added 13 new modifiers and extended the one of one, as indicated in the January 2011 Integrated Outpatient Code Editor. Most of the new modifiers went into effect Jan. 1, but one new modifier ...

CMS has established a new payment modifier — PD Diagnostic or related nondiagnostic item or service provided in a wholly owned or operated entity to a patient admitted as an inpatient within 3 days, ...

Payers are quietly reshaping the economics of anesthesia — and ASCs are feeling the effects first. With new reimbursement cuts and policy shifts eliminating key modifiers, anesthesia has become one of ...

The first year of Medicare’s Physician Value-Based Payment Modifier program saw 29.3 percent of eligible practices penalized for failing to register and report data, according to a study published in ...

Practices that had more than 200 clinicians and that had higher meaningful use of health information technology (IT) were more engaged in reporting quality data and performed at a higher level on ...