Chalk this posting up to exhaustion.

It turns out that the annoying cough I’ve been fighting for the last week is actually bronchitis. For this, my urgent care physician prescribed a Z-Pack and $50 cough syrup that makes you drowsy. To spare the reader, I skipped the cough syrup for this post, as it’s a fine line between an industry blog posting and William Burroughs’ Naked Lunch. I’ll be brief, and hopefully effective.

Two updates of note came to light this week. First, on January 4th, Medicare was to implement a rule clarifying date of service and place of service rules for interpretation of diagnostic tests. These rules stated that the date of service and place of service of the interpretation of diagnostic tests should be when and where the interpretation was performed, and not the date and place of the performance of the test. Thankfully, on February 5th, this new rule was postponed indefinitely due to mass provider confusion. The policy could be reviewed at a later date for future implementation.

The second update follows up on my last posting here regarding the 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. Thanks to the snowstorms that pounded the East Coast this week, which led to a federal government

11:56 pm, February 28th, 2010 |