The new modifier -PO (services, procedures, and/or surgeries furnished at off-campus provider-based outpatient departments [PBD]) and the alternative payment provisions under the Bipartisan Budget Act Section 603 are both related to off-campus PBDs but define "off-campus PBD" slightly differently.
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!
One of the last major shifts in coding before the transition to ICD-10 was the introduction of diagnosis-related groups (DRG) in 1982. Now that the struggle to implement ICD-10 has passed, how do the two transitions measure up? Both Wendy Coplan-Gould, RHIA, president of HRS Coding in Baltimore, and Sallee Silverman, RHIA, an AHIMA-approved ICD-10 trainer and a manager with HRS Coding, were actively working in healthcare through both shifts and shared their thoughts with HIM Briefings shortly after ICD-10 went live in October 2015. When DRGs were introduced, Coplan-Gould was working as the associate director of the Maryland Resource Center in Maryland.
