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Keep Up To Date On New VBP Info

Learn how OASIS-E will affect your VBP numbers. The end of the first quarter of expanded Home Health Value-Based Purchasing’s (HHVBP’s) first performance year is nearly here, and Medicare continues to issue new VBP info at a fast clip. Make sure you don’t miss any of it. New CMS FAQs Answered For example: In its […]

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Coding InFlow Device? Check Date of Service

Novitas Solutions issued a reminder March 10 about billing for temporary implantable female urological prostheses, reported with CPT® codes 0596T and 0597T. If your claims for these services are being denied, it’s no wonder, what with all the policy changes in recent years. The service coding isn’t the problem; it’s the device coding. Coding Insertion […]

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Surprise Billing Ban Compliance Date Weeks Away

The January 1 compliance date is just around the corner, yet key elements of the NSA are still missing. In July, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, and Treasury, and the Office of Personnel Management issued the first interim final rule, or set of requirements, for the No Surprises Act (NSA) […]

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Industry Pushes Back Against Looming Surprise Billing Ban Compliance Date

Payers and hospitals call for a delay until 2023 as they wait for key elements of the NSA to be released and an end to the public health emergency. As the Jan. 1, 2022, compliance date for the No Surprises Act (NSA) that bans surprise (balance) billing approaches, insurers and hospitals are asking to delay […]

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RAP Diagnosis Code, Service Date Instructions Change

Other claims system glitches fixed, with one still waiting. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continues to issue new rules to accommodate no-pay Request for Anticipated Payments (RAPs) and Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM). Principal Diagnosis CMS has reissued Change Request (CR) 11855 and added a few new instructions about requests for anticipated payments. […]

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Discharge Summary Date

If the provider completes a discharge summary on 05/01/2019 but is not actually discharged until 05/02/2019. Does the provider’s discharge summary need to be updated to include that information stating the actual discharge date of 05/02/2019? I understand we would bill our services on 05/01/2019 because that is the actual date the provider did the face to face service but not sure if we have to have them update their note to include the actual discharge date.

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Refresh Your Understanding of Date of Service Requirements

CMS’ latest guidance reiteration will, hopefully, make coding these sometimes-confusing services easier. Determining the date of service (DOS) when reporting a medical claim seems straightforward, but the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently-released “Guidance on Coding and Billing Date of Service on Professional Claims,” is a good indication this topic is more complex […]

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