DRG Deleted Code Details 781

Market consolidation on a large scale announced. Two of the original "Big Four" publicly traded home care companies soon will become one, pending shareholder and regulatory approval. Lafayette, Louisiana-based LHC Group Inc. and Louisville, Kentucky-based Almost Family Inc. "have agreed [...]

Tip: Check the guidelines to find the location of a particular diagnosis. If you furnish therapy services for home health agencies (HHAs) or for homebound patients, you need to be aware of how to code for the corrective or maintenance [...]

Definitive condition doesn’t always rule out symptom code. As a home health coder, you already know that it’s generally not appropriate to list a code for a sign, symptom, or ill-defined condition when you have a definitive diagnosis. But are [...]

Tip: Don’t throw away your current coding rule book after Oct. 1. You might need to code on the basis of signs and symptoms even under ICD-10. Despite anything you have heard to the contrary, the new diagnosis coding system [...]

When you look forward to Oct. 1, you’ll be looking back at your existing signs/symptoms coding rules. Although you may have heard that ICD-10 includes a code for every condition under the sun, that news may have been exaggerated. In [...]

When you look forward to Oct. 1, you’ll be looking back at your existing signs/symptoms coding rules. Although you may have heard that ICD-10 includes a code for every condition under the sun, that news may have been exaggerated. In [...]

Question: I’ve just relocated to a SNF setting from a hospital outpatient therapy department and am having trouble getting our therapy claims paid. Some of my colleagues have suggested that the problem could be with therapy V codes, but I’m not [...]

Look at associated symptoms until your physician gets to the final diagnosis.  Though ICD-10 offers a direct one-to-one match for multiple sclerosis, you have to keep options open to report symptoms. This is because it may take a while for [...]

Remember to report associated symptoms until final diagnosis is reached.  Approximately 10,000 new cases of multiple sclerosis are diagnosed each year, which means it’s not uncommon for your neurologist to treat these patients. Here’s your chance to refresh your memory [...]

ICD-10 will teach you to code based on the specific condition. An estimate of about 2 million Americans suffer from smell and taste disorders – also called olfactory dysfunctions. When your otolaryngologist diagnoses a patient with a disturbance in her [...]