Whistleblowers rake in hundreds of thousands in recent cases. Home health fraud cases aren’t confined to Medicare. So show three recent guilty pleas in Missouri. The former owner, office manager, and business manager of a St. Louis County, Mo.-based home [...]
Know these updates to juvenile osteochrondosis and arthritis coding. 2021 ICD-10-CM changes relevant to orthopedic coding will go into effect Oct. 1, 2020. Use the next few weeks to become comfortable with the changes before you need to implement them [...]
Code sets get major upgrade in new Dx book. ICD-10 2021 will feature three major revisions to codes representing juvenile osteochondrosis (JO), and more than a dozen new codes to provide a more detailed picture of the patient’s injury via [...]
It’s just like real estate: Location is everything. As a urology coder, you see calculus diagnoses on a regular basis. ICD-10 has expanded your choices, but for stone diagnoses you will find most of your most common ones in two [...]
It’s just like real estate: Location is everything. As a urology coder, you see calculus diagnoses on a regular basis. ICD-10 has expanded your choices, but for stone diagnoses you will find most of your most common ones in two [...]
This guide to MIPS reporting and pulmonology-specific Quality Measures will maximize your 2019 reimbursement bonus CMS’ Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) is one of the single largest overhauls to Medicare since its inception, and months after its announcement, many physicians [...]
Plus: Infection and inflammatory reaction choices have numerous changes. With the first official round of ICD-10 updates going into effect on Oct. 1, it’s crucial to spend the next two months preparing for the changes that will affect your practice [...]
Question: My doctor performed surgery where “ureteroscopic laser lithotripsy was done for a distal stone. It was found that the cause of the stone was a surgical staple from a prior hysterectomy that had eroded into the ureteral lumen. Once the [...]
Be equipped with the plan of action to embrace the new system The notion that outpatient services will not be affected by the ICD-10 transition is creating a false complacency in outpatient coders which might lead to a significant number [...]
Tip: Pay attention to dilation approach. One word can make all the difference in your coding success or failure when it comes to ureteral dilation procedures. Review this case study and how noticing just one word in the operative note [...]
