What to understand about Medicare’s latest move and what you should do now to be ready. You’re going to have a lot less time to clean up overpayment obligations, or face Medicare recoupment action much sooner — including interest or [...]
Commenters push back on OASIS burden. If the mountain of new SPADE elements proposed for 2021 implementation isn’t enough to make your OASIS staff run screaming for the hills, three new OASIS items related to new health information transfer quality [...]
Make sure clinicians understand dashes. While it’s not too late to get where you need to be on OASIS-D, you also don’t have time to waste. Follow this expert advice to make sure your assessments — and related payments and [...]
Grab your answers and see if you can call yourself an expert. Answer 1: To report a documented hypertensive urgency, hypertensive emergency, or unspecified hypertensive crisis, turn to the appropriate code from category I16- (Hypertensive crisis). You should also code [...]
Your ED may see these diagnoses frequently, but do you know how to report them? Every ED is sure to see patients with acute myocardial infarctions, fractures and hypertensive crises this year, but coding these conditions can present myriad challenges. [...]
New "without necrosis" codes join new toe fracture codes for improved documentation. As of Oct. 1, 2017, 300 new diagnosis codes have come into play, and the field of podiatry has received its fair share of those changes. Some of [...]
See how to code for patients with a non-pressure ulcer documented as healing. CMS and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) recently released the 2018 ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting. In these Guidelines, you will find further [...]
Question: All of the upcoming ICD-10 additions are overwhelming. There are going to be 45 new non-pressure ulcer codes? How can our practice stay up-to-date on all the changes and revisions? North Dakota Subscriber Answer: The new ICD-10 2018 changes/additions will go [...]
CMS adds new “without evidence of necrosis” ulcer codes. CMS recently published its list of the new ICD-10 2018 codes, but they won’t go into effect until Oct. 1, 2017. Do you wonder which of these over 300 new diagnosis [...]
Medicare reimbursement of outlier episodes to be based on 15-minute units starting in new year. Home health agencies’ pleas to adjust the new outlier calculation methodology fell on deaf ears, and the result may be decreased access for diabetic and [...]
