Home Health & Hospice Week

Diagnosis Coding:

Bid Farewell To Extra Money For Certain GI Codes And More

Codes used in tens of thousands of episodes in 2012 get kicked off the case mix list. CMS has stuck to its guns on eliminating 170 diagnosis codes from the prospective payment system case mix calculation in 2014. This summer, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and its coding and PPS grouper contractors identified two categories of codes it [...]
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