This week's Medicare updates include an update to the Revisions to the Inpatient Prospective Payment System; Prospective Payment System (PPS) and Consolidated Billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) for 2018; Provider-Based (PB) Determination; and more!
The new ICD-10-CM codes for FY 2018, effective October 1, represent significant changes in our documentation and coding practices. In follow-up to last month’s column, let’s discuss additional new codes and their potential impact upon your diagnostic decision-making and documentation.
As more focus is placed on improved revenue integrity management, coordination, and collaboration, revenue cycle is evolving to revenue integrity. As such, it’s important to understand the classic revenue integrity issues which can arise at any facility.
The 2018 OPPS proposed rule includes potential changes to 340B drug discount payments, the inpatient-only list, packaging for low-level drug administration services, and more.
