This week’s Medicare updates include details on repayments to outpatient clinic visits at excepted off-campus provider-based departments, a new ICD-10-CM code for vaping-related disorder, an article on home infusion therapy billing, and more!
Q: Do you have any advice for organizations to ensure they're meeting three-day inpatient stay requirements for discharging patients to skilled nursing facilities (SNF)?
Eighty-four hospitals may have received incorrect payments for discharges on or after October 1 due to errors in the hospital wage-index table published in the fiscal year (FY) 2020 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) pricer, according to CMS.
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) reached a settlement with Korunda Medical LLC, a Florida-based company, on December 11 for a potential violation of the HIPAA Privacy Rule’s right-of-access provision.
Q: We have a patient who was admitted for an ablation procedure in order to treat his atrial fibrillation (AF). How should we report this in ICD-10-PCS?
