This week’s Medicare updates include information on systematic validation edits for OPPS providers with multiple service locations, draft guidance on the new Medicare Prescription Payment Plan, and more!
Terry Tropin, MSHAI, RHIA, CCS-P, reviews the biggest changes to the 2024 ICD-10-CM guidelines and tabular list set to take effect October 1, including deletions of certain COVID-19 screening guidelines, and additional direction for new resistant hypertension and myocardial infarction codes.
Complete and accurate reporting under the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program can result in increased reimbursement. Learn how to use coding and CDI teams to improve the collection of correct data under this program.
Read this Q&A to better understand which telehealth programs were made permanent or temporarily extended for Medicare Part B patients until 2024 under the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023.
When coders think of reporting for neonates and critical care, most think of CPT codes. However, ICD-10-PCS also gives codes to use for procedures for newborns/neonates related to respiratory assistance quickly after birth, when necessary. Refresh your knowledge of these codes.
