Urinary catheters emerged as an attractive target ... from Medicare due to inflated billing for unnecessary medical supplies. Coastal Carolina Health Care P.A., for instance, faced a penalty ...

Urinary catheter placement in dogs may be necessary for certain surgical procedures or for treatment of certain conditions. This column describes the vaginoscopic placement of an indwelling female ...

When this happens, a sterile, flexible tube called a urinary catheter is inserted into the urethra (where urine leaves the ...

Effective October 15, a new Final Rule issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will allow the Medicare Shared Savings ...

What may sound like a legit phone call could lead to your Medicare benefits being stolen by scammers. Here's what you need to ...

A4353 (Intermittent urinary catheter with insertion supplies) 4. CMS uses claims data from Medicare Parts A and B to calculate various factors in MSSP, including expenditures for ACO-assigned ...

A 79-year-old female, symptom-free dialysis patient who was a resident in a nursing home drew attention due to purple urine in her catheter bag (Figure a). Purple urine bag syndrome (PUBS ...

CMS claimed in the news release that it identified a “concerning rise in urinary catheter billings, which was attributed to a small group of of durable medical equipment supply companies.” ...

If large volumes of urine are to be obtained, a butterfly catheter consisting of a needle and a length of flexible tubing or a 3-way stop-cock may be used to help sample collection. Depending on ...

Last year, the CMS identified a rise in billing for urinary catheters among a small group of durable medical equipment supply companies. The higher billing wasn’t matched by more physicians ...

intermittent urinary catheter, with insertion supplies 3. Payments for these codes are excluded. Codes are considered suspect when there is an unexplained spike in claims either in volume or dollar ...