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Marketing for artificial intelligence (AI) tools aimed at medical practices is everywhere — and promising everything. But experts warn that you should not rush out and purchase something labeled AI, no matter how exciting the demo or urgent the problem it promises to fix.
 
After earlier reforms that sought to reduce the impact of prior authorization on providers and patients, CMS has created a demonstration model that will add prior authorization requirements for regular Medicare for a select group of regional providers.
 
Selecting a level of medical decision-making (MDM) can be confusing and complicated. There are four levels of MDM: straightforward, low, moderate and high. Each level includes three components that, when used together, determine a level of service.
 
 
Start training your staff on the diagnosis code changes that will go into effect Oct. 1. CMS will adopt the ICD-10-CM additions, revisions and deletions that it previewed in April.
 
 
The HIPAA Security Rule does not mandate a specific frequency for risk analyses, but best practices suggest conducting them at least annually or whenever a major change occurs.
 

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