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Don’t let confusion over the rules land you in hot water. Starting this month, will you be subject to a $1 million statutory penalty per violation if it is determined that you’ve broken health information blocking rules? Hold on tight [...]

Consider one chain’s approach to therapist pay restructuring. Home care providers need all the help they can get when it comes to stocking their toolboxes for coping with the coronavirus — even as the pandemic stretches into fall. Check out [...]

Avoid using truncated codes. Dragging your feet to incorporate the latest ICD-10-CM codes could lead to denials for services covered by Medicare National Coverage Determinations (NCDs). Change Request (CR) 11491 describes changes to four NCDs that might impact coverage for [...]

Hint: Don’t confuse fear of flying for claustrophobia. When your psychiatrist diagnoses claustrophobia, you will have to look through the ICD-10 codes for situational phobias to arrive at the correct code for this type of phobia. You should also be [...]

In addition to scores, timing becomes crucial for the right GCS code. In the last issue of the Neurosurgery Coding Alert, you had a chance to review the NIHSS codes. Another similar scale used for neurological assessment is the Glasgow [...]

Plus: FDA warns of infusion system at risk for cybersecurity issues. You’ll soon have some new resources at your fingertips to help you make the most of new mobile technologies while staying HIPAA compliant. On July 23, the National Cybersecurity [...]

Question: If a patient with a major complication and comorbidity gets a permanent cardiac pacemaker implant and also undergoes percutaneous cardiovascular procedure with drug-eluting stent in the same stay, which MS-DRG should I assign to him? Texas Subscriber Answer: When a provider [...]

More than one F-tag is involved in end-of-life care compliance for skilled nursing facilities. Although many important nursing home survey changes affecting palliative care are contained in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services guidance on F-Tag 309, it’s best [...]

ICD-10 no longer has group unspecified locations alongside the specific locations for each type, You may be used to choosing your osteoarthrosis based on anatomical location and status, but that all changes in ICD-10. Find out how to navigate the [...]

Use additional codes for functional activity. Unlike many conditions that have greater granularity in ICD-10 than ICD-9, you can expect a direct crosswalk for malignant thyroid cancer. Currently, you report the condition as 193 (Malignant neoplasm of thyroid gland). When [...]