Home Health & Hospice Week
Brainstorm Alternatives To These Top 10 RTP Codes
These codes won’t cut it any more under PDGM. You need to be scrutinizing your current claims to see which codes will lead to returns under the Patient-Driven Groupings Model. The list of RTP codes will vary by agency, depending on patient mix, notes Lisa Woolery with Fazzi Associates in Northampton, Massachusetts. But you can bet many of these top 10 Return to Provider codes under the new payment model, provided by Woolery and based on 2018 data, will show up on your list:
Home Health & Hospice Week
- Diagnosis Coding:
Take These 10 Steps To Bolster Coding Under PDGM
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Brainstorm Alternatives To These Top 10 RTP Codes
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