FOOT PROCEDURES WITHOUT CC/MCC DRG Code 505
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- CPT® 2021 Q3: See How New PLA Codes Could Change Your Cancer Reporting - (Jun 09, 2021)
Consider new ART-related codes, too. Get ready for a third quarter CPT® update with seven new Proprietary Laboratory Analyses (PLA) codes and an update to section guidelines effective July 1. We’re here to help you learn the new codes and [...]
- Payment Reform: Report Unveils Winners, Losers Under HHGM Reform System - (Dec 08, 2016)
Therapy episodes would get reimbursed less. If your claims are dominated by episodes with high therapy, no recent hospital stays, or patients with behavioral health conditions such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or drug addiction, Medicare’s draft for HH PPS payment [...]
- Reimbursement: New Outlier Policy To Chop One-Third Of Outlier Episodes - (Nov 04, 2016)
Medicare reimbursement of outlier episodes to be based on 15-minute units starting in new year. Home health agencies’ pleas to adjust the new outlier calculation methodology fell on deaf ears, and the result may be decreased access for diabetic and [...]
- Pulmonology: Pneumoconiosis Diagnoses Will Denote the Type of Inorganic Dust Inhaled - (Jun 11, 2012)
Type of inhaled inorganic dust is vital for accurate coding.If your pulmonologist treats patients with occupational respiratory problems, you're likely to see pneumoconiosis diagnoses fairly frequently. Get a head start on coding this condition when ICD-10 codes come into effect [...]
- ICD-10 Update: Capture New Codes Mean More Specificity For Pneumoconiosis - (Apr 26, 2012)
Type of inhaled inorganic dust is vital for accurate coding.If your pulmonologist treats patients with occupational respiratory problems, you're likely to see pneumoconiosis diagnoses fairly frequently. Get a head start on coding this condition when ICD-10 codes come into effect [...]
- IN OTHER NEWS ... - (May 09, 2009)
• The Senior Medicare Patrol project may be losing momentum, but it could still cause headaches for your practice if your patients don't understand how Medicare billing works. In 2008, 57 Patrol projects in all 50 states and Puerto Rico [...]
- PHYSICIAN NOTES :CMS' Senior Medicare Patrol Project Appears to Be - (May 01, 2009)
Plus: Even carriers appear to be confused about how to report discharge codes for deceased patients. The Senior Medicare Patrol project may be losing momentum, but it could still cause headaches for you if your patients dont understand how Medicare [...]
- Industry Notes: PPS REFINEMENTS ADJUSTMENTS STILL UNDERWAY AT ONE RHHI - (Apr 22, 2009)
HHAs will see long-awaited underpayments finally fixed. Don't be surprised if you continue to see lots of home health agency claims adjustments from regional home health intermediary Palmetto GBA. The intermediary is currently working its way through adjustments for five [...]
- Industry Notes: Get Ready For Changes As New Administration Takes Office - (Nov 05, 2008)
Obama begins announcing appointments affecting Medicare. Come January, Medicare will have a whole new set of leaders influencing how the federal program pays you. President Elect Barack Obama has an-nounced former Senate leader Tom Daschle as his Secretary of Health [...]
- BILL WATCH - (Oct 07, 2005)
The following bills were introduced in the House: H.R. 4131. A bill to amend title 35, United States Code, to provide for compulsory licensing of certain patented inventions relating to health care emergencies, and to provide that applications under section [...]