The 2016 Revenue Integrity Symposium brings together training on Medicare billing and compliance, case management, revenue integrity, coding, CDI, and patient status, and more.
CMS' coding modifiers are not always used to report clinical components of a service. Sometimes they can be used in order to provide information about how a service relates to Medicare coverage policies.
The April 2016 I/OCE update brought a host of code and status indicator changes, as well as corrections to CMS' large January update that instituted policies and codes from the 2016 OPPS final rule.
As healthcare providers increasingly accept financial risk associated with patient management due to the transition from fee-for-service to risk-/value-based reimbursement, the traditional model of healthcare reimbursement has been flipped upside down.
