Regulations: GET READY FOR A NEW WAY TO LEARN ABOUT MEDICARE CHANGES
CMS' Medicare manuals get a makeover - and they'll soon be online - only.
Provider-specific Medicare manuals are going the way of the dodo - and health care organizations that don't want to do the same had better take notice.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is phasing out provider-specific, paper-based manuals in favor of eight new Internet-only manuals grouped into functional areas, CMS explains in a Sept. 12 transmittal.
So instead of separate manuals for hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, etc., and for carriers and intermediaries, CMS now will have eight manuals that providers...
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