DOL is onto agencies’ tricks such as misclassifying employees and neglecting to combine hours between locations. Failing to pay overtime and minimum wage has socked two Texas home care agencies with a hefty $1 million bill. Alegre Home Health Care [...]
Insufficient documentation continues to plague HH claims. Not all the details are out about Medicare’s latest annual improper payment rate findings, but it’s clear that home health agencies continue to make fewer claims errors. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid [...]
Question: Our cardiology practice is having trouble crosswalking “abnormal chest sounds” from ICD-9 to ICD-10. Are we missing some detail in the ICD-10 manual? New York Subscriber Answer: Despite ICD-10’s increased specificity in some situations, the new diagnosis coding systems actually combines [...]
Arterial bruit and rales now fall under the same code. Given the increased specificity requirements of ICD-10, you may be surprised to learn that ICD-10 combines “other specified” circulatory and respiratory symptoms into a single code. Check out the list [...]
Arterial bruit and rales now fall under the same code. Given the increased specificity requirements of ICD-10, you may be surprised to learn that ICD-10 combines “other specified” circulatory and respiratory symptoms into a single code. Check out the list [...]
Question: A new patient visited our office with breathing problems. The physician took a comprehensive history and conducted a thorough examination. After diagnosing asthma, the physician used the session for asthma education wherein she spent two hours supplying education and materials [...]
Question: What diagnosis code should we report for chronic regional pain syndrome (CRPS) of the chest wall for ICD-9 and ICD-10? West Virginia Subscriber Answer: If your provider’s documentation clearly mentions CRPS type I of the chest wall, ICD-9 code 337.29 (Reflex [...]
Identify when you need to attach modifier 25 to an E/M service. These days, it isn’t a matter of if you will face Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) scrutiny, but rather when. So now is the time to shore up your [...]
Question: What diagnosis code should we report for CRPS of the chest wall? Texas Subscriber Answer: If your provider’s documentation clearly mentions CRPS type I (complex regional pain syndrome) of the chest wall, ICD-9 code 337.29 (Reflex sympathetic dystrophy of [...]
Question: What diagnosis code should we report for CRPS of the chest wall? Texas Subscriber Answer: If your provider’s documentation clearly mentions CRPS type I (complex regional pain syndrome) of the chest wall, ICD-9 code 337.29 (Reflex sympathetic dystrophy of other specified [...]
