Add all the cost-sharing particulars to your COVID-19 checklist. If your head is spinning from pandemic policy overload, you’re not alone. As healthcare workers far and wide ramp up for a dismal winter amidst the third wave, the feds offer [...]
See new COVID-19-related details on Medicare extensions and payments. If your head is spinning from pandemic policy overload, you’re not alone. As healthcare workers far and wide ramp up for a dismal winter amidst the third wave, the feds offer [...]
PPE, lower volume cost chains millions. 2020 was already expected to throw home health into chaos with the Patient-Driven Groupings Model, elimination or significant reduction of RAP payments, and more. Then came the pandemic. In recent days, heads of publicly [...]
Latest round targets numerous lesion shaving, excision, and destruction procedures. Unlike the huge first round of Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI, or CCI) procedure-to-procedure (PTP) edits for 2019 that we reported on in Primary Care Coding Alert volume 21 number 2, [...]
Source of admission might add thousands of dollars to your episode. Whether you sink or swim under the new payment reform model taking effect in January 2020 may depend on your referral sources. Why? The Patient-Driven Groupings Model, newly finalized [...]
Bring your E/M, vaccine coding up to date with this guide. The good news is that, with just 182 additions, 49 revisions, and 74 deletions, the changes to the 2019 CPT® manual are not particularly extensive. The even better news, [...]
Agencies’ have their work cut out for them in avoiding survey deficiencies. Some Interpretive Guideline changes are for the worse and some are for the better, but final IG sections that remained unchanged from the draft put home health agencies [...]
Look to your workforce to see what your facility can do to champion your community. It may not surprise you: People of color — especially women — have a huge role in providing direct care to residents in long-term care [...]
A cyber attack exposes millions of consumers credit data. On September 7, 2017, Equifax was compromised with a breach that impacted over 143 million individuals. The cyber attack resulted from “website vulnerability,” the company said in a release on its [...]
Get to know three new reason codes that will point the way to diagnosis coding troubles on your hospice claims — and could lead to missed deadlines for NOEs. “New hospice reason codes were implemented with the July 2015 system [...]
