CMS issued the fiscal year (FY) 2017 IPPS proposed rule Monday with updates to several MS-DRG classifications and relative weights. The amount of proposed MS-DRG changes, said Shannon McCall, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPC, CPC-I, CEMC, CCDS, director of HIM and coding for HCPro, a division of BLR, in Danvers, Massachusetts, was expected due to the transition to IDC-10.
This week’s updates include the fiscal year 2017 IPPS proposed rule; implementing payment changes for Frontier Community Health Integration Project; and more!
The Provider Roundtable, established in 2003 to give CMS the benefit of providers' input and guidance on critical healthcare delivery issues, has issued a call for new members who have a strong interest in improving Medicare reimbursement under various payment systems.
This week’s updates include implementation of the award for Jurisdiction A DME MAC workload; April 2016 Integrated Outpatient Code Editor (I/OCE) Specifications Version 17.1; and more!
The healthcare industry got a five-year break from annual code updates for ICD codes as preparations for ICD-10 implementation took place, but the updates will be back this year and bigger than ever.
Despite industry pushback and several delays, ICD-10 implementation has, against all odds, gone relatively smoothly for the vast majority of providers, leading CMS to tout its success in a recent blog post from Andy Slavitt, CMS’ acting administrator.
