Public feedback amount fluctuates significantly. Just how much Medicare officials will listen to home health providers’ pleas may rest, at least in part, on the number of folks who are speaking up. This year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid [...]
Deficiencies under these 11 CoPs can trigger SFP selection. Check out the information that Medicare will use to single out hospices for stepped-up survey enforcement when the Special Focus Program takes effect. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposes [...]
Check out these new ED-related 2017 ICD-10 updates for emergency medicine The freeze on new ICD-10 codes has been lifted, and, as expected, there are a significant number of changes to ICD-10 for 2017. Overall, you’ll find 1,943 new codes, [...]
Feds currently reviewing proposals for ICD-10 updates. While the ICD-10 authors haven’t updated the diagnosis coding book for the past half-decade, that moratorium is about to end. The first annual update of the ICD-10 manual will take effect on Oct. [...]
New codes, additions, and deletions will account for revisions in October. The five-year moratorium on ICD-10 code updates is about to end. On Oct. 1, 2016, the first annual update of the ICD-10 manual will take effect. You can anticipate [...]
The annual update process is back in full swing. You’ve had a five-year code freeze to ease transitioning to ICD-10 CM, but now you should get your lab ready to see the first set of annual updates this Oct. 1. [...]
Prepare to implement revisions in your Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis coding. The CDC has posted a preliminary list of ICD-10-CM changes for October 1 (aka ICD-10-CM 2017), and just in case you don’t have time right now to sort through about [...]
Cardiovascular system changes and more will impact your practice. After a five-year code freeze to ease transitioning to ICD-10 CM, you can expect to see the first set of annual updates this Oct. 1. The Centers for Disease Control and [...]
Prepare to implement revisions in your Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis coding. The CDC has posted a preliminary list of ICD-10-CM changes for October 1 (aka ICD-10-CM 2017), and just in case you don’t have time right now to sort through about [...]
New codes, additions, and deletions will account for revisions in October. Prepare to see the first set of annual update in the ICD-10 manual this year. The five-year freeze coders and providers have enjoyed with the ICD-10 system is about [...]
