This week’s Medicare updates include Advance Care Planning implementation for OPPS claims, revision to State Operations Manual Appendix PP - incorporating revised Requirements of Participation for Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing facilities, and more!
Tom Price, President Trump's pick to lead the U.S. Department of Human Services, is the first physician to hold the office since the 1990s. He has vowed to take down Obamacare.
HIM Briefings is conducting a benchmarking survey on EHR operationalization and use, and we would appreciate your input. Please take a few moments to complete the survey here. We will select one respondent at random to win his or her choice of a complimentary HCPro webinar.
Q: We have a provider who utilized a skin substitute called MariGen for a couple of months at the end of 2016. We bill our wound care encounters on a series/monthly claim and are receiving rejections for these services based on the procedure-to-skin substitute code pair. We are billing the same way we did during the last quarter of 2016. What are we missing here?
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Join expert speaker Kimberly Anderwood Hoy Baker, JD, CPC, for this live webinar Thursday, February 23, at 1 p.m. EST, as she discusses operational strategies for using condition code 44 and W2 processes to get reimbursement for inpatient non-covered cases while leveraging UR resources.
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