This year’s reimbursement relief, inadequate as it is, may not last long, experts predict. Home health providers are far from happy that Medicare officials have finalized a behavioral adjustment reimbursement cut for 2024, even if it’s smaller than the original [...]
Scaled-back cut won’t stave off access problems, industry reps warn. A meager 0.8 percent reimbursement rate increase for home health services next year spells bad news for both home health agencies and their patients, even if it is a bit [...]
A March 29 webinar about how CMS is calculating the payment rate cuts under the Patient-Directed Groupings Model left many attendees frustrated, and now the industry is preparing an emphatic response. Reminder: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services held [...]
Reviewers are overriding physicians’ judgment, audit targets charge. The two nonprofit hospices in the OIG’s latest audit reports are calling the watchdog agency on its medical review transgressions. The HHS Office of Inspector General has issued a long string of [...]
Nonprofits call OIG on its medical review nonsense. In a long string of audit reports stretching back to last November, the OIG has raked hospices over the coals — chiefly over terminal illness — to the tune of tens of [...]
Look for feeding problem codes in the P92 range. Although the 779.xx series may have been your best pal when coding for newborn feeding problems, that all changed when ICD-10 took effect—and you’ll have to make friends quickly with the [...]
Look for feeding problem codes in the P92 range. Although the 779.xx series may have been your best pal when coding for newborn feeding problems, that all changed when ICD-10 took effect—and you’ll have to make friends quickly with the [...]
The first-stop descriptor isn’t always your best choice. A patient having a history of rapid heart beat, also known as tachycardia, is a special consideration for your anesthesia provider before and during surgery. Be aware that you’ll be turning to [...]
Rely on the index to keep your coding for sinus tachycardia on the right path. Cardiac conditions can sometimes increase the risk of administering anesthesia during a patient’s procedure. Such is the case with 785.0 (Tachycardia unspecified), which is a [...]
Count on the index to keep your coding for sinus tachycardia on the right path. Under ICD-10, you’ll be turning to R00.0 for a rapid heart beat, instead of 785.0. But you won’t be using R00.0 exactly the same as [...]
