Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

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170 Revenue-Generating Diagnosis Codes Pruned

Watch how your plan of care is defined. Including diagnosis codes in the case mix point system leads to overpayments, says the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). To remedy the situation, CMS suggests dropping a wide variety of case mix codes. CMS’ “clinical staff along with clinical and coding staff from Abt Associates (our support contractor) and 3M [...]
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