This week’s Medicare updates include additional guidance on the MOON form, an NCA for leadless pacemakers, delayed implementation of the (ESRD) Interim Final Rule – Third Party Payment, and more!
HCPro is currently seeking speakers to present at the 2017 Revenue Integrity Symposium, to be held October 21–22, 2017, in Nashville, Tennessee. Is that special person you or a colleague?
This week’s Medicare updates include the latest Medicare Quarterly Provider Compliance Newsletter, a proposed decision memorandum for hyperbaric oxygen therapy NCA, new interest rates for Medicare overpayments and underpayments for Q2 2017, and more!
Obtaining appropriate inpatient status orders for inpatient-only procedures can be difficult due to the EMR and written orders that are still in existence. Is it true that if the surgeon or attending physician orders observation/outpatient status after an inpatient-only procedure that we must bill as outpatient? Can we use our utilization review committee to overturn the observation/outpatient order in this scenario? Please advise.
Managers should not assume that they can review every guideline, every item in Coding Clinic, or every coding-related issue targeted by the Office of Inspector General or Recovery Auditor.
This week’s Medicare updates include the Cardiac Rehabilitation Incentive Payment Model final rule and changes to the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Model, guidance for clinical laboratory data reporting, and more!
One area of CPT coding that saw big changes for 2017 is for dialysis circuit coding. The existing codes have all been deleted, and new codes have been created (36901-36909) for reporting these procedures.
