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New Principal Diagnosis Coding Edits To Hit Claims System In April

Published on Fri Oct 14, 2022

Get ready for new diagnosis coding-related edits to hit your claims starting in April. Old way: Under current data validity edits, “only a principal diagnosis not assigned to a clinical group causes HH claims to be returned to the provider,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says in a new MLN Matters article. “Other principal diagnosis code errors aren’t [...]
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