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HHAs would like their own data ASAP — but it looks like they won’t get it any time soon. The implementation date for the Expanded Home Health Value-Based Purchasing payment model is rushing up. Make sure you understand one of [...]

For hospice, terminal prognosis continues to be providers’ Achilles heel. Targeted Probe and Educate medical review is back, and it’s soaking up agencies’ precious time and resources. But before TPE, post-payment medical review from the HHH Medicare Administrative Contractors resumed [...]

Tip: Review guidelines on flu reporting. With new ICD-10-CM updates around the bend, it’s a great time to update your policies and be ready on Oct. 1. Background: On July 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released [...]

Tip: Updated guidelines offer clarification on vaping. There’s only one month until the new ICD-10-CM updates go live on Oct. 1. Now is a good time to review the changes and get your policies in line. Logistics: On July 1, [...]

Plus: You’ll also find new codes for headaches. When patients arrive at the ED with symptoms of withdrawal, physicians must determine what substances the patients were using and whether their conditions are life threatening. And effective October 1, 2020, you’ll [...]

Question: In the interests of painting the most complete diagnosis picture possible, our coding manager wants us to use external causes of morbidity ICD-10 codes from now on. I must admit I’m not too familiar with them; can you give [...]

Question: Notes indicate that the orthopedist performed a level-three evaluation and management (E/M) service for an established patient with, according to the note, a “R acromioclavicular joint dislocation, 150%.” What does the note mean, and how do I choose an [...]

Obstetric surgical wound infection codes receive overhaul, too. 320 additions. 172 revised codes. Three deleted codes. The changes to the 2019 ICD-10 are not as extensive as they have been in previous years, but as always, the revisions will affect [...]

Inclusion terms under the new codes will direct you to the right choice. The World Health Organization (WHO) recently published its list of the new ICD-10 2019 codes, but they won’t go into effect until Oct. 1, 2018. Of these [...]

Employ these crucial codes into your radiology coding repertoire in time for 2019. Staying on top of the vast number of new and revised ICD-10 codes arriving in October should always be a priority for radiology coders. Depending on your [...]