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This week in Medicare updates–8/09/2017
Source: Revenue Cycle Advisor
This week's Medicare updates include an update to the Revisions to the Inpatient Prospective Payment System; Prospective Payment System (PPS) and Consolidated Billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) for 2018; Provider-Based (PB) Determination; and more!
Support your revenue integrity department with PEPPER
Source: Revenue Cycle Advisor
Improper payments can easily occur due to errors in billing, coding, or medical necessity. As such, it’s important to have a program in place to help you identify and prevent improper payments.
 

Revenue Cycle Advisor Subscriber Content

A new frontier: Remote CDI
Source: Revenue Cycle Advisor
Hiring remote CDI specialists can help ease staffing shortages and improved efficiency. But starting or expanding a remote CDI program takes planning and preparation to be successful.
 

Daily Q&A
Q&A: Holding case management staff accountable
Source: Revenue Cycle Advisor
Q. How can you best hold case management professionals accountable for deliverables?

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Email your questions for consideration in the Revenue Cycle Daily Advisor. Note: We do not guarantee that all questions will be answered.
 

Upcoming CMS Events
Wednesday 8/9 - Hospice & DME/Quality Open Door Forum
Thursday 8/10 - Safety-Net Providers Open Door Forum
Wednesday 8/16 - Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program Model Expansion Listening Session
Thursday 8/17 - IMPACT Act: Drug Regimen Review Measure Overview for the Home Health Quality Reporting Program Call
 

Product Spotlight

JustCoding's 2018 ICD-10-PCS Code Updates

CMS has released the new, revised, and deleted ICD-10-PCS codes for 2018. During this program, expert speaker Shannon E. McCall, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPC, CPC-I, CEMC, CRC, CCDS, will review significant coding and guideline changes, determine potential areas of documentation improvement for new and revised codes, and answer your questions during the live Q&A.
 

    

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