This week's Medicare updates include an update to the Revisions to the Inpatient Prospective Payment System; Prospective Payment System (PPS) and Consolidated Billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) for 2018; Provider-Based (PB) Determination; and more!
The new ICD-10-CM codes for FY 2018, effective October 1, represent significant changes in our documentation and coding practices. In follow-up to last month’s column, let’s discuss additional new codes and their potential impact upon your diagnostic decision-making and documentation.
As more focus is placed on improved revenue integrity management, coordination, and collaboration, revenue cycle is evolving to revenue integrity. As such, it’s important to understand the classic revenue integrity issues which can arise at any facility.
This week's Medicare updates include an update to the 2018 Proposed Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate; ICD-10 Coding Revisions to National Coverage Determinations; Updated Editing of Always Therapy Services; and more!
When Spencer Johnson wrote the iconic book, Who Moved My Cheese? An A-Mazing Way to Deal With Change in Your Work and in Your Life, he probably didn’t have the homecare industry in mind. But with the speed of reimbursement and regulatory issues surrounding us today, he certainly could have.
