Expect the holiday crunch to crank up to ‘11’ this year, with OASIS-E and VBP debuting simultaneously Jan. 1. New OASIS-E information released by Medicare underscores how much extra work will be dumped on home health agencies’ plates in about [...]
Better way: A high-risk V code can remedy payment woes You-re going to have to use an extra V code to separate routine lead screenings from exposure testings. See if you can navigate the nuances of ICD-9 coding for possible [...]
Better way: A high-risk V code can remedy payment woesYou're going to have to use an extra V code to separate routine lead screenings from exposure testings. See if you can navigate the nuances of ICD-9 coding for possible lead [...]
Demo funding drawn from reduced hospital, ER use.Home health agencies got some good news and some bad news in the special Open Door Forum on the home health pay for performance demonstration project.Good news: Incentive payments under the P4P demo [...]
With more than a quarter of a million total hip replacements performed each year, coding for them should be a no-brainer, right? Wrong. If youre automatically coding 27130 for a total hip replacement when you read those words on the [...]
