After a busy week, Gretchen, a manager of case management, is looking forward to the weekend. On Friday night she goes to bed early. By Saturday she still feels worn out, so she sets her cell phone on vibrate. All she needs, she thinks, is more time to recover and regain her energy for the upcoming week.
This week's note discusses the order and certification requirement for critical access hospitals (CAH), including the proposal in the FY 2018 IPPS proposed rule to reprioritize the review of CAH inpatient admissions.
Q: We have trouble billing multiple units of injections and infusions that are done during observation stays and exceed the medically unlikely edits number. What is the correct way to bill these and get paid?
