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The Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (HOPPS) for calendar year 2022.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the American Medical Association's (AMA's) finalized coding updates for calendar year 2022.

If enacted, patients with cancer across the country will benefit from increased access and new fiscal protections, including universal paid family leave.

The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) for calendar year 2022.

There has been a flurry of activity from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Health and Human Services, and Health Resources and Services Administration, including the release of the CMS calendar year (CY) 2022 proposed rules for the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System. Below is a summary of how these notifications may impact oncology.

On Aug. 4, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its 2021 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed rules.

Effective Oct. 1, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will add 279 new codes, revise 143 existing codes, and deactivate 51 codes in the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) classification.

With the advent of ICD-10-CM, providers on the receiving end of referrals are expecting complete and accurate clinical information that may ultimately be used for diagnosis code assignment to be part of the referral process. But what if the oncologist is the physician referring a patient for a diagnostic imaging study?

If you treat Medicare Advantage patients, you must also know your HCCs (hierarchical condition categories) and your ICDs (International Classification of Diseases).