LOCAL EXCISION AND REMOVAL OF INTERNAL FIXATION DEVICES OF HIP AND FEMUR WITH CC/MCC DRG Code 498

Increasing cap overages, ratio of for-profit providers concerns the advisory body. Take a look at the facts and figures the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recently put into policy and lawmakers hands to aid in decision-making about hospice reimbursement and other [...]

MedPAC highlights an average live discharge rate of 43% for 10% of hospices. MedPAC lines up a lot of facts to support its recommen­dations for a rate freeze and 20 percent cut to the per beneficiary cap. But hospices see [...]

Hint: Note which materials the physician referenced if choosing a face-to-face counseling code. Did you know you can report both preventive medicine counseling codes 99401-99404 as well as a problem-based evaluation and management (E/M) visit on the same day? If [...]

Tip: Don’t use 99401-99404 if the patient is ill. Fact: You can report preventive medicine counseling codes 99401-99404 on the same day as a problem-based E/M visit when your ob-gyn counsels the patient on an unrelated preventive issue. Learn how [...]

Tip: Make risk management a priority in 2021. You might think that a pandemic would impede HIPAA enforcement, but you’d be wrong. In fact, as COVID-19 hits its third-wave stride, the feds seem to be trending up rather than down. [...]

From for-profit chains to VNAs, hospices are merging, changing hands, and more. Pandemic concerns don’t seem to be slowing down the hopping hospice mergers and acquisitions market. As always, Texas is a busy M&A location. Irvine, California-based Jet Health Inc. [...]

The busy hospice mergers and acquisitions market continues to hum. In Georgia: Alleo Health System, parent of Hospice of Chattanooga, has acquired Angel Heart Hospice in Marietta. The deal enlarges Alleo’s service area in the state to eight counties. Alleo [...]

Tip: Don’t use 99401-99404 if the patient is ill. Fact: You can report preventive medicine counseling codes 99401-99404 on the same day as a problem-based E/M visit when your ob-gyn counsels the patient on an unrelated preventive issue. Learn how to [...]

OB infections are different. With so many new diagnosis codes that could impact your general surgery practice, we’re serving up “round 2” to make sure you’re ready for the Oct. 1 ICD-10-CM 2019 implementation date. Hopefully you read last month’s [...]

Dial into these revisions for last year’s non-pressure ulcer codes. CMS recently published its list of the new ICD-10 2019 codes, but they won’t go into effect until Oct. 1, 2018. “This has been a lucky year for podiatry in [...]