This week’s Medicare updates include $50 billion in awards to strengthen rural health initiatives, 2026 travel allowance fees for specimen collection, and more!
Q: What is the correct ICD-10-CM coding approach for poisoning cases that include documented manifestations, and how are these cases reflected in code selections and sequencing?
Short-term acute care hospitals once again have access to the Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER), which they can use to improve claim accuracy.
Accurate provider documentation is the foundation of compliant coding, appropriate reimbursement, and defensible claims. Yet, in a rapidly changing healthcare landscape, even highly skilled clinicians can find it difficult to stay current.
