This week’s updates include the temporary pause of QIO short stay reviews; review of CMS' Pioneer Accountable Care Organization Payment Model first performance year administration; and more!
This week’s updates include change requests regarding payments to home health agencies that do not submit required quality data; the July 2016 update of the ambulatory surgical center payment system; and more!
Q: CMS released guidance last summer about not auditing or counting errors for the specificity of an ICD-10-CM code. CMS is not going to count the code as an error as long as the first three digits are correct. Does this apply to medical necessity diagnoses and edits?
