Q: Our providers are reluctant to document a correlation between symptoms and a detailed diagnosis. Do you have any good ways to get them to do this? For example, our providers document "diabetes" but they often don't include additional details that should be there (e.g., gestational diabetes or type II diabetes mellitus in pregnancy).
As healthcare providers increasingly accept financial risk associated with patient management due to the transition from fee-for-service to risk-/value-based reimbursement, the traditional model of healthcare reimbursement has been flipped upside down.
This week’s updates include July calendar year 2016 quarterly update to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Database; Claim Status Category and Claim Status Codes update; and more!