Remember, the codes went into effect Oct. 1. ICD-10 has snuck up sooner than expected, as it seems to every year. Breakdown: The new code list took effect Oct. 1, 2023, so you should be using the new diagnosis codes [...]
Find new options for muscle wasting disease. Among the 1,468 new ICD-10 codes, 251 deleted codes, 35 revised codes, and 36 codes converted to parent codes, there are some updates you’ll want to know if you’re coding muscular dystrophy or [...]
Intraoperative/postprocedural complications get new codes, too. The final list for ICD-10 2023 is official — and it’s a doozy. Specifics: ICD-10 2023 will feature: 1,468 new codes, 251 deleted codes, 35 revised codes, and 36 codes converted to parent. That’s [...]
Don’t let decreases in revenue for common peds services drag you down. Every year, Chip Hart, director of PCC’s Pediatric Solutions Consulting Group in Vermont and author of the blog “Confessions of a Pediatric Practice Consultant,” looks into his crystal [...]
Plus: Outlier formula tweak will make them a little easier to obtain. Not surprisingly, home health agencies are consumed with the details of the payment reform model included in the 2019 Home Health Prospective Payment System Final Rule. But that [...]
Hint: Suggested E/M documentation changes could balance shortcomings. If a hefty portion of your Part B take-home pay is tied to E/M office visits, you may want to review recent Medicare proposals. However, depending on your specialty and the number [...]
Hint: Suggested E/M documentation changes could balance shortcomings. If a big part of your Medicare pay is tied to evaluation and management (E/M) office visits, you may be concerned about recent proposals from CMS. But depending on your specialty and [...]
For once, HHAs have no rebasing or case mix creep cuts to contend with. For the first time in nearly a decade, Medicare is proposing to increase home health agencies’ reimbursement rates instead of cut them. While the rate increase [...]
Feds will examine cases where one visit translates to additional thousands of dollars. Just where do you fall in relation to your peers when it comes to episodes barely exceeding the LUPA threshold? The answer may land you in hot [...]
Plus: You may not have to give up hope for the rural add-on quite yet. While the news that Medicare officials were pulling HHGM from the 2018 HH PPS Final Rule was met with universal pleasure from the home health [...]
