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Craneware Insights Articles communicate important regulatory changes to Medicare Outpatient billing, Chargemaster (CDM) and coding compliance. Craneware analyzes Transmittals and bulletins from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and other organizations such as Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) and emails Insights Articles in a focused manner to alert customers to pertinent regulatory changes.

Regulatory News Topic

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A recent article published by Riverbend Government Benefits Administrator (?Riverbend GBA?), primary Part A Medicare Fiscal Intermediary (?FI?) for New Jersey and Tennessee, provides guidelines for hospital billing of intravenous therapy (?IV?) when the IV line was started in the ambulance on the way to the hospital Emergency Room (?ER?).

Date of Insight Article

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10-Jul-05

What you need to know and action needed

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