Expert: Pediatric practices might miss these new Dx codes. There are several sets of ICD-10 code additions, deletions, and revisions that every practice will note as soon as the new edition of the diagnosis coding manual hits the shelves. Remember, [...]
These measures are a means to meet your MIPS minimum and potentially reap a bonus in 2019. MIPS is one of the single largest overhauls to Medicare since its inception, and months after its announcement many physicians find themselves scratching [...]
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 [...]
Solo practices to be hit hard, large practices to flourish, and more … Tighten your seat belts, as your journey of transition to the new MACRA (Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act) framework begins now. On April 27, CMS disseminated [...]
Reviewed on May 20, 2015 Question: What diagnosis applies to a SLAC wrist due to scaphoid fracture? Kentucky Subscriber Answer: Look at your post-traumatic arthritis diagnosis choices such as 716.14 (Traumatic arthopathy; hand) with 718.84 (Other joint derangement, not elsewhere [...]
The target once again: high-therapy claims. Tighten up your therapy claims oversight or you could lose thousands of dollars per episode.A small Chicago-based home health agency is facing that fate following an audit by the HHS Office of Inspector General. [...]
You'll want to tighten up your therapy claims oversight -- or risk losing thousands of dollars per episode.Small Chicago-based home health agency Pacific Home Health Care Inc. is now facing that fate, as the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) tagged [...]
