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170 Revenue-Generating Diagnosis Codes Pruned

Published on Thu Aug 01, 2013

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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