Q: A patient presents for routine obstetrical (OB) care following a vaginal delivery. During the visit, the provider performs a postpartum depression screening. Should the depression screening be charged separately from the global OB visit service?
Q: I read that CMS changed the scope of work for the Beneficiary and Family Centered Care Quality Improvement Organizations (BFCC-QIO) Livanta and Kepro recently. What impact has that had on hospitals?
Q: When a diabetic patient has arteriosclerotic peripheral artery disease (PAD), should an additional ICD-10-CM code be assigned from subcategory I70.2- (atherosclerosis of native arteries of extremities) to describe the affected vessel and laterality?
