As fall begins, so does cold and flu season. To fight it, millions of people head to their local pharmacies to get vaccinated. This year, though, things might look a little differently. It was ...

CMS updated its infection control guidance on COVID-19 using and building off of guidelines from the CDC. Monitor the CDC website and local public health departments for information and resources ...

Americans with Medicare Part B, including those enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan, will now have access to over-the-counter COVID-19 tests at no cost, according to the Centers for Medicare & ...

A nursing home found to have erred in 99 of 100 reimbursement submissions during the pandemic is fighting back against those ...

CMS has released several fact sheets in recent weeks on billing and coding to provide guidance to healthcare organizations testing and treating patients for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel ...

The COVID tests were piling up on Sylvia's front porch. 20? OK I don't, maybe more. I don't know. I lost count. So frequently that you lost count. Exactly. Companies were billing Medicare on her ...

Federal authorities charge Syed Mehdi Hussain and Syed Murtuza Kablazada with health care fraud, accusing them of defrauding Medicare out of $136 million through a scheme involving COVID-19 tests that ...

If your fire department provides ambulance transportation for EMS patients, you’ve likely seen a financial impact from COVID-19 responses. While some agencies in the COVID-19 hotspots have seen ...

Medicare will nearly double the payment for certain lab tests that use high-throughput technologies to rapidly diagnose large numbers of 2019 Novel Coronavirus cases, the Centers for Medicare and ...

The American Hospital Association in a Sept. 27 letter outlined recommendations for how CMS should ensure the implementation of its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all workers in Medicare and ...