The Senior Medicare Patrol’s recoveries are down, but it’s keeping up the pressure on the hospice industry. Hospices have been feeling scrutiny from regulators for some time, but now it’s coming from a new source — your patients’ peers. “In [...]
In 2020, the Senior Medicare Patrol fraud-fighting program netted about half its $16.8 million in recoveries from a home health investigation (see story, p. 190). For 2021, there’s no mention of home health in the SMP annual report at all, [...]
Follow these Dx coding changes starting October 1. CMS recently published its list of the new ICD-10 2019 codes, which will go into effect on October 1, 2018. The lowdown: There are several areas in which your neurology/pain management practice [...]
Add new codes I63.81 and I63.89 to your knowledge base. The field of cardiology may not have been hugely affected by the 2019 ICD-10 revisions, but that’s no reason to ignore them, according to Christina Neighbors, MA, CPC, CCC, Coding [...]
Obstetric surgical wound infection codes receive overhaul, too. 320 additions. 172 revised codes. Three deleted codes. The changes to the 2019 ICD-10 are not as extensive as they have been in previous years, but as always, the revisions will affect [...]
Inclusion terms under the new codes will direct you to the right choice. The World Health Organization (WHO) recently published its list of the new ICD-10 2019 codes, but they won’t go into effect until Oct. 1, 2018. Of these [...]
Hint: Don’t miss new codes I63.81 and I63.89. CMS recently published its list of new ICD-10 2019 codes, but they won’t go into effect until Oct. 1, 2018. Although there were minimal ICD-10 2019 revisions and additions regarding cardiology, it’s [...]
Don’t miss new codes for hereditary cerebrovascular diseases. CMS recently published its list of the new ICD-10 2019 codes, but they won’t go into effect until Oct. 1, 2018. Read on to learn how these 280 new codes and 170 [...]
Employ these crucial codes into your radiology coding repertoire in time for 2019. Staying on top of the vast number of new and revised ICD-10 codes arriving in October should always be a priority for radiology coders. Depending on your [...]
Question: What ICD-10 code would I use to indicate the pathology is still pending for a prostate biopsy? Oregon Subscriber Answer: You should report ICD-10 code D49.5 (Neoplasm of unspecified behavior of other genitourinary organs). In the past, you would have used [...]
