Q: Can I leave a patient a voicemail about an MRI procedure, including the time and date? What should I do if someone else at the patient's home answers the phone? How much info can I leave with the other person, and how can I verify that person's identity and relation to the patient?
Reconciliation is a noun meaning "the process of finding a way to make two different ideas, facts, etc. exist or be true at the same time." In the world of clinical documentation improvement (CDI), "reconciliation" typically refers to diagnosis-related group (DRG) reconciliation, which is the process of adjusting DRGs when those assigned by the CDI specialist do not match those assigned by the coder.
Reconciliation is a noun meaning "the process of finding a way to make two different ideas, facts, etc. exist or be true at the same time." In the world of clinical documentation improvement (CDI), "reconciliation" typically refers to diagnosis-related group (DRG) reconciliation, which is the process of adjusting DRGs when those assigned by the CDI specialist do not match those assigned by the coder.
One of the more challenging aspects of a case manager's job is helping to ensure a patient successfully transfers from the hospital to the next level of care. Under a set of proposed revisions to Medicare's Conditions of Participation (CoP) announced in November 2015.
Modifier -58 describes a staged or related procedure or service by the same provider during the postoperative period. For outpatient hospitals, the postoperative period is defined as the same service date.
CMS' Transmittal 3523, issued May 13, is the quarterly July 1 OPPS update. In this transmittal, CMS briefly mentions billing physical and occupational therapy and speech-language pathology services provided in support of or adjunctive to comprehensive APC (C-APC) services under revenue code 0940 (general therapeutic services) rather than the National Uniform Billing Committee‑defined revenue codes for these services (i.e., 042x, 043x, and 044x, respectively).
