No matter how tight your staffing situation, make sure you’re running even your aides through the OIG’s exclusion database — or you may regret it. Case in point: Valley of the Sun Home Healthcare in Glendale, Ariz. recently entered into [...]
Your referral sources who bill for advance care planning may want to brush up on the requirements, in light of new scrutiny on the topic. In a new report, the HHS Office of Inspector General reviewed 691 ACP services associated [...]
A new lawsuit from a North Carolina home health agency takes aim at the Medicare appeals backlog. “As a result of increasing audit activity by HHS contractors, providers have experienced extraordinary delays in the appeals process, particularly at the [Administrative [...]
You saw how three ophthalmologists would fare under the proposed E/M payment changes —now check out what the impact would be to three optometrists whose data we sampled. Using the current E/M payment levels and comparing them to the proposed [...]
It's time to update your systems and templates to get ready for the new and revised ICD-10 codes that take effect October 1, 2017. There are 363 new codes, 142 deletions, and 226 code revisions. Don't let these numbers overwhelm [...]
Specificity is a theme, especially in coding breast lumps and pulmonary hypertension. As you are now aware, ICD-10 will implement the new coding changes beginning in October. It's important that you look over the complete set of changes, as radiology [...]
CMS has released the finalized list of 2018 diagnosis codes. Gastroenterology coders hoping to benefit from new ICD-10 codes this fall will be pleased to see that CMS has delivered over 300 new diagnosis codes debuting on Oct. 1. CMS [...]
Ensure future ‘quality’ pay with accurate diagnoses. Your general surgery practice faces a host of ICD-10-CM changes that could impact how you code your cases. Allow our experts to unpack the roughly 750 additions, deletions, and revisions to make sure [...]
CMS has released the finalized list of 2018 diagnosis codes. If you’ve got high hopes that you’ll benefit from many new ICD-10 codes starting this fall, CMS delivers, with over 300 new diagnosis codes debuting on Oct. 1. CMS published [...]
CMS has released the finalized list of 2018 diagnosis codes. Gastroenterology coders hoping to benefit from new ICD-10 codes this fall will be pleased to see that CMS has delivered over 300 new diagnosis codes debuting on Oct. 1. CMS [...]
