The idea of value-based purchasing may not be as trendy in policy circles as it once was, but that doesn’t mean you couldn’t find yourself under the Home Health VBP system sooner than you think. The Centers for Medicare & [...]
ICD-10 will help you report the service more accurately. When your otolaryngologist removes a foreign body from a patient’s nose or ear, you currently have a single diagnosis code for each situation. That will change after ICD-10’s implementation in [...]
930 (Foreign body on external eye) 930.1 (Corneal foreign body) 931 (Foreign body in the ear) 932 (Foreign body in the nose) 933.0 (Foreign body in pharynx) 933.1 (Foreign body in larynx) 934.0 (Foreign body in trachea) 934.1 (Foreign body [...]
Question: Our pediatrician saw a little boy with what she called retained tympanostomy tubes. The tubes had worked their way out of the drum and were in the ear canals. She was able to remove one by irrigation but not [...]
Question: A father brings his 2-year-old son into the ED with an injury to his right ear; the boy was scratching at the ear, which appeared swollen and red. The ED physician performs a level-two E/M, during which she visualizes [...]
Question: A father brings his 2-year-old son in to the FP with an injury to his right ear; the boy was itching at the ear, which appears swollen and red. The FP visualizes a foreign body (FB) in the external [...]
Even a 6-visit threshold has chance for abuse Get ready for a complete overhaul of how therapy affects your home health agency’s PPS payments. Under the finalized prospective payment system refinements, home health agencies will see a change from the [...]
Will 6, 14 visits become the new 10? Get ready for a complete overhaul of how therapy affects your PPS payments. Under the finalized prospective payment system refinements, home health agencies will see a change from the current 10-visit threshold [...]
Surprise: New changes could actually make life easier for providersGetting in the loop on revisions to the Medicare claims appeals process is relatively painless - and could help save time and money.Provisions in the Medicare Modernization Act (42 U.S.C. 1395ff) [...]
The therapy cap moratorium isn't the only good news for therapists.Therapists who have been drowning in Medicare's administrative quagmire can take heart: Congress has thrown them a lifeline. Buried in the thousands of pages that make up the newly enacted [...]
