Thirty-day billing period base rate 55.6 percent of 60-day rate. It soon will be time for the rubber to hit the road when it comes to the Patient-Driven Groupings Model. Does your agency have what it takes under the hood [...]
Plus: See how much Medicare’s behavioural adjustments are stripping from base rate. If you thought your home health agency impact file outlining the Patient Driven Groupings Model’s effects is the full story, think again. Reminder: When the Centers for Medicare [...]
Use this quiz to identify where you need to focus your learning. Accurate ICD-10 coding will help safeguard your reimbursement. Do you know which diagnosis codes to report for the conditions your physician documents? Test yourself with these four quiz [...]
Changes for GIs to postprocedural hematoma, Hodgkin’s lymphomas, and more. Sorting through the CMS final update for the ICD-10-CM codes can be a daunting task, with over 1,900 new codes, 400-plus revised codes, and 300-plus codes to go obsolete. As [...]
Question: We generally use 739.x codes for spinal subluxation. However, can I also use 739.0 (Nonallopathic lesions, not elsewhere classified; head region), as the ICD-9 code for a patient who presents with a non-healing lesion of the head? Rhode Island [...]
Under ICD-10, you’ll need to check the chart to correctly assign that 7th character for the most accurate code choice. Expanding the diagnosis code set from a maximum of five characters in ICD-9 to seven characters in ICD-10 allows for [...]
Understand the anatomical differences to ethically maximize your revenue. When reporting repair to wounds of the mouth especially to the lip area, you will need to understand when to use an integumentary repair code and when to use other site [...]
Question: A 67-year-old woman presents after falling in her kitchen. She was feeling dizzy after quickly looking up at the smoke alarm that had gone off from some smoke caused by burning toast in the oven. She suffered minor bruising and [...]
Keep watertight documentation at hand before reporting secondary repairs. You are all too aware of sprained ankle ligament coding if your practice receives a large number of athletes. However, are you paying close attention to terms such as primary and [...]
Question: An established patient reported to our practice with a cut in the vestibule of the mouth; it was bleeding moderately. The patient reported that he bit down on a lobster shell by mistake and cut the roof of his mouth. [...]
