In the CY 2022 PFS final rule (86 FR 65060), in part to recognize the changes made by section 123 of the CAA, 2021 that removed the geographic restrictions for Medicare telehealth services for the diagnosis, evaluation, or treatment of a mental health disorder and the addition of the patient's home as a permissible originating site for these services, we revisited our regulatory definition of interactive telecommunications system beyond the circumstances of the PHE
We also propose to add a new paragraph (a)(9)(iii) to 425.601 and to add a new paragraph (a)(9)(viii) to 425.652, each specifying that we would recalculate benchmark year expenditures to account for the impact of improper payments, for the benchmark year corresponding to a performance year for which CMS issued a revised initial determination under 425.315
point-of-care autonomous analysis and report, unilateral or bilateral ) from the OPPS cap list because it does not include an associated PC or physician interpretation and it is primarily utilized in the physician office setting
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Model comparison showed that the Negative Binomial model provided the best fit (AIC = 6,300), compared with the Poisson model (AIC = 11,470) and the Zero-Inflated model (AIC = 7,132)