Author Archives

Ms. Ollapally is Regulatory Affairs Manager, ACS Division of Advocacy and Health Policy, Washington, DC.

Posts by Vinita Ollapally, JD:

• The 2019 Medicare physician fee schedule: An overview of provisions that will affect surgical practices
• EHRs add to surgeons’ administrative burdens: The ACS responds
• Quality Payment Program year two: Information to help you succeed in 2018
• Postoperative data reporting for global services
• Reporting global codes data in 2017
• The 2017 Medicare physician fee schedule: An overview of provisions that will affect surgical practice
• CMS eases restrictions imposed under the Two-Midnight Rule
• Preparing for MACRA implementation
• Provisions in the 2016 Medicare physician fee schedule that will affect surgical practice: An overview
• Changes on the horizon for global services payment
• 2015 Medicare fee schedule: How the changes will affect surgical practice
• The FY 2015 Inpatient Prospective Payment System final rule
• Reporting patient safety indicator-15
• Preparing for implementation of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act
• 2014 fee schedule and CPT code changes will affect surgical practice
• Bundled payment
• The inpatient list
• Documentation of services provided in the postoperative global period
• 2013 payment policy and coding changes affecting surgical practice
• Medicare and Medicaid audits