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CMS may consider delaying implementation of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), Andy Slavitt, CMS acting administrator, said during a meeting of the Senate Finance Committee July 13.
The cost of healthcare is quickly rising across the nation and patients are shouldering the majority of the price increases through higher deductibles and out-of-pocket expenses as expenditures continue to shift from employers to patients.
Q: A patient fractured all metatarsals last year and had open reduction and internal fixation. The patient now has a nonunion of the fracture sites and is going back to the OR for an amputation. What would be the appropriate ICD-10-CM seventh character to report?
CMS recently released the 2017 ICD-10-PCS code updates and guidelines, which include changes to certain root operations. Of the updates, the most notable modifications are the addition of root operation Perfusion, and edits to the current definitions of Control and Creation.
As we all digest the potential financial impacts of the CY 2017 OPPS proposed rule, there are a few positive changes that may be coming to the CMS inpatient-only list.
Q: A patient has multiple laboratory tests on the same date of service. We receive the following NCCI edit: “Code 80048 is a column two code of 80053. These codes cannot be billed together in any circumstances.” Should we only bill code 80053?
