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2005 Newsletter
Clip 'N' Save: Code Sections A9, A10, Correctly
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Code Sections A9, A10, Correctly
Published on Wed Nov 23, 2005
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MDS Alert
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Put the plug in this potential payment drain.
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RAI Compliance:
Don't Confuse Consolidated Billing With MDS Coding Rules
Excluding an excluded service on the MDS can cost you a RUG.
You want to code [...]
MDS Coding:
Cover These Bases In Coding A Resident On Palliative Care
Otherwise, you could end up with a losing survey or QIs/QMs out of bounds.
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Coding Quizzer:
Determine Discharge Potential For The Dying Patient
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Quality Reporting:
Coding End-Stage Disease Excludes Residents From These Quality Measures
If the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services gives you a break in your quality [...]
Section W:
Worried About Lack Of Coding Options To Explain Immunizations Offered But Not Yet Given?
Here's the posted solution for now.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' has heard providers' [...]
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Code Sections A9, A10, Correctly
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See How The RUGs Stack Up Under CMI Maximization
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Resident Assessment:
Check Out This Fax Form For Reporting Fever To The Physician
MDS & Billing News
DAVE is making a comeback. Pronouncements of DAVE's demise were apparently exaggerated. The Centers for [...]
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