Tip: Check VA financial enrollment, then evaluate billing. If you are treating patients under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (CHAMPVA) and not receiving reimbursement, ensure electronic funds transfer (EFT) is properly set up [...]
To no one’s surprise, the Internal Revenue Service has once again upped its mileage rate. “Beginning on Jan. 1, 2023, the standard mileage rates for the use of a car (also vans, pickups or panel trucks) will be: 65.5 cents [...]
Hint: You’ll have lots more urethral stricture options. The next round of ICD-10-CM changes won’t go into effect until Oct. 1, but CMS has released information on new, revised, and deleted codes for the next year. Changes applicable to urology [...]
New GG items should top your priority list. If you think the changes coming to OASIS in January are relatively minor because they involve lots of dropped items and only six new ones, think again. The Centers for Medicare & [...]
Section GG to expand. Get ready to put some serious resources into OASIS education and training in 2018, thanks to new requirements spelled out in the 2018 HH PPS Final Rule. On One Hand: Burden Lifted The Centers for Medicare [...]
Wait for final code set to release in June. If you are aware, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently posted a preliminary list of ICD-10-CM changes for October 1 (aka ICD-10-CM 2017). The list is voluminous [...]
October revisions will keep the denials at a minimum. Remember how you had thought you had lost a code for when a laparoscopic surgery becomes an open one? ICD-10 will resolve this as of October 1, when you’ll add Z53.31 [...]
Wait for final code set to release in June If you are aware, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently posted a preliminary list of ICD-10-CM changes for October 1 (aka ICD-10-CM 2017). The list is voluminous [...]
Hint: You will now have to look at affected “eye” when reporting diabetic complications. If you are aware, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently posted a preliminary list of ICD-10-CM changes for October 1 (aka ICD-10-CM [...]
Get ready to specify ovarian cyst laterality in October. Remember how you had thought you had lost a code for when a laparoscopic surgery becomes an open one? ICD-10 will resolve this as of October 1, when you’ll add Z53.31 [...]
