HHA owner fugitive is apprehended at the border. Home health may not get mentioned in the new HHS Office of Inspector General Semiannual Report as much as in previous editions, but what the report lacks in quantity is made up [...]
Keep long-term impact of expanded Level 1 edits in mind, experts urge. Chances are you need to shore up your cost reporting practices to avoid failing newly announced Level 1 edits. So indicates the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' [...]
Line 3 Employee Benefits - missing from 13.80% of reports in 2016 (385 reports) Line 4 Administrative & General - missing from 0.29% of reports (8) Line 5 Plant Operations and Maintenance - missing from 45.16% of reports (1,260) Line [...]
Industry takes another popular press beating. Day of the week, service setting, location, and ethnicity made a difference when it came to Medicare hospice patients receiving “professional” services at end of life, a new study shows. Of the 661,557 Medicare [...]
Industry takes another popular press beating. Day of the week, service setting, location, and ethnicity made a difference when it came to Medicare hospice patients receiving “professional” services at end of life, a new study shows. Of the 661,557 Medicare [...]
Question: What is the best diagnosis code for laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR)? Alabama Subscriber Answer: Coders have debated in the past whether the better ICD-9 code for this was 530.81 (Esophageal reflux) or 478.79 (Other diseases of larynx, not elsewhere classified). Supporters of [...]
Just one more detail will separate it from your current choice. When your otolaryngologist diagnoses paralysis of the vocal cords, you might not always have enough details to report whether it is partial or complete, unilateral or bilateral. In those [...]
Question: What is the correct diagnosis code for chondritis of the larynx? Virginia Subscriber Answer: You should report 478.79 (Other disease of larynx). Note that this code also represents abscess, necrosis, obstruction, pachyderma, or ulcer of larynx. You should turn to either 464.00 [...]
You’ll have a single code, but don’t misreport with a less specific option. When ICD-10 goes into effect on Oct. 1, you will shift from 478.75 (Laryngeal spasm) to J38.5 when coding for laryngeal spasm. The two codes share the [...]
Question: Which diagnosis codes support 31575? Ohio Subscriber Answer: Medical policies differ regarding diagnoses that support performing 31575 (Laryngoscopy, flexible fiberoptic; diagnostic). But some indications for 31575 may be: Airway obstruction (chronic, 496; NEC, 519.8) Aspiration, chronic (507.0, Pneumonitis due to inhalation of [...]
