As Medicare Advantage makes strides to becoming the new norm, organizations need to establish new processes, educate staff, and advocate for patients. Learn how your organization can keep pace with change before it’s too late to catch up.
Device-dependent edits require reporting a device code with procedures CMS has designated to be device intensive, and they are meant to ensure that device costs are accounted for in Medicare rates for device-intensive procedures.
Q: A payer has begun denying authorization for admissions and diverting patients from our hospital to one of our competitors, even when our hospital is closer. Is this a common practice among payers? What language should we add to the contract to discourage it?
Employees need to know what to do and what not to do when it comes to ensuring protected health information (PHI) remains secure. That’s where TeachPrivacy comes in as an excellent resource for quality staff training.
Q: The 2020 ICD-10-CM update added several new codes for legal interventions. What are these codes, and can they be assigned based on nonphysician documentation?
