But Medicare’s improper pay rate for hospices has fallen significantly. Hospices looking for relief from regulatory and medical review burdens may have a good argument, thanks to new payment error figures. In a new Comprehensive Error Rate Testing report released [...]
Bad news: Hospices had the highest rate of erroneous claims. The heavy hand that the feds have been taking with hospice scrutiny and enforcement may not be so necessary, new payment error figures suggest. In a new Comprehensive Error Rate [...]
Abandon the mysterious “mid-cervical” term for more specific options. After October 1, ICD-10-CM will revise the way you report cervical disc disorders and takes away the mystery of what “mid-cervical” actually means. Instead, you will have to identify the C4-C7 [...]
Postprocedural complications and mediastinitis add up to the J codes. Are you unnerved with the news of 1,900 new ICD-10-CM codes and over 3,000 new PCS codes being added to the ICD-10-CM codeset, as per the annual update due to [...]
Question: Is it mandatory that loss of consciousness be documented for submitting diagnosis of concussion? Can you suggest how we can report for conscious patients with this condition using ICD-9 codes? Codify Subscriber Answer: A patient does not have to be unconscious [...]
Question: Is it correct to only report a concussion diagnosis code if the patient loses consciousness? Our physician treats many head injury patient who report conscious and have a diagnosis of concussion. Are we correct to report concussion as diagnosis for [...]
Question: We went to a seminar where they said to only report a concussion diagnosis code if the patient loses consciousness. We see a lot of student-athletes, so it’s common for our sports medicine physicians to diagnose head injuries. Which [...]
Report symptoms documented and do not ignore late effects. When you're coding your surgeon's concussion services, you could be sidelining your claims if you're omitting E/M work or missing the right diagnosis codes. Learn about three common myths that could [...]
Question: We went to a seminar where they said to only report a concussion diagnosis code if the patient loses consciousness. We see a lot of student-athletes, so it’s common for our pediatricians to diagnose head injuries. Which diagnosis should we [...]
You have several options for treating cognitive defects. When your pediatric patients suffer from head injuries, you might be confused about which services you can report. Worse yet, many practices get the wrong information and undercode these services. Check out [...]
