This week’s Medicare updates include the FY 2023 IPPS Final Rule, a request for information on improving Medicare Advantage, an implementation transmittal for the updates to the Inpatient Psychiatric Facility Prospective Payment System, and more!
Telehealth coverage may be changing in your state as early as this fall—if it hasn’t already. While Medicare has pledged to cover telehealth services through December 2023, many state public health emergency waivers that expanded telehealth services are set to be rolled back.
Revenue erosion and denials are often easily prevented, but simple errors may evade traditional, reactive denials management processes. Apply these tips to reduce and prevent common denials due to medical necessity, the three-day payment window, and more.
This week’s Medicare updates include the FY 2023 IPPS Final Rule, a request for information on improving Medicare Advantage, an implementation transmittal for the updates to the Inpatient Psychiatric Facility Prospective Payment System, and more!
It may be summer, but there is no vacation when it comes to HIPAA privacy and security. In fact, OCR was extremely busy and active with enforcement in July.
This week's Medicare updates include the FY 2023 Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System final rule, the FY 2023 Inpatient Psychiatric Hospital Prospective Payment System final rule, the FY 2023 Hospice Payment Rate Update final rule, and more!
Reconciling CDI reviews and queries against final coding is an important but sometimes overlooked step. Use these expert tips to refresh or develop your organization's CDI and coding reconciliation process.
In June, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the decades-old decision on abortion rights and it was enough to have OCR weigh in with some guidance on privacy regulations. OCR issued guidance June 29 to protect patient privacy in the wake of the decision.
The 3-day payment rule is known to coders by various names such as the 72-hour rule, the 3-day payment window, or MS-DRG window policy. Kimberly Lee M.Ed., RHIA, CCS-P, describes how to navigate the rule’s nuances for billing purposes.
