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Mini-poll: Which option best describes the type of facility for which you primarily code?

Which option best describes the type of facility for which you primarily code?

  • Large hospital or healthcare system (more than 300 beds)
  • Medium-sized hospital or clinic (100-300 beds)
  • Small hospital or clinic (fewer than 100 beds)
  • Critical access hospital (fewer than 25 beds)
  • Provider-based clinic
  • Physician’s office

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Last week’s mini-poll 

Does your hospital have an inpatient or outpatient clinical documentation improvement (CDI) program?

  • Yes, we have a CDI program that reviews inpatient records: 66%
  • Yes, we have a CDI program that reviews inpatient and outpatient records: 10%
  • Not applicable, I work in a physician office setting: 12%
  • No, we do not have a CDI program: 13%

Thank you to the readers who participated in last week’s mini-poll!

HCPro.com – JustCoding News: Inpatient

Does your facility continue to struggle with injections and infusions coding?

By Steven Andrews

Despite few recent code or rule changes in recent years, coders and HIM managers I hear from through emails and at industry events almost always mention concerns about accurately documenting and reporting drug administration services.
 
The services are often performed in different hospitals departments on a variety of types of patients.  Revenue integrity relies on orders, nurse documentation, correctly applying coding concepts, and capturing charges based on documentation.
 
If you continue to struggle with accurately reporting these services, join HCPro for our annual 90-minute webcast for a comprehensive review of the revenue integrity concepts applicable to drug administration services, including tips on medication administration record (MAR) documentation, and for capturing charges.
 
During this program, expert speakers Jugna Shah, MPH, and Valerie A. Rinkle, MPA, will cover frequently raised questions and discuss the impact of OPPS packaging on drug administration overall payments, the importance of reviewing your MAC’s local coverage determination guidance, and hot audit topics.
 
The webcast will take place Friday, January 29, from 1-2:30 p.m. (Eastern). For more information, click here.
 
 
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Your current subscription to APCs Insider will be transferred to the Revenue Cycle Daily Advisor. The last issue of the APCs Insider is scheduled for January 22. Next week we will give you more details about managing your subscription to the Revenue Cycle Daily Advisor. 
 
 
Survey on education and resources for coding management
HCPro is conducting research on education and resources related to coding management post-ICD-10. Please take a moment to answer a short 5-question survey to help us learn what would best serve your needs. Click on the link below to answer the survey online. If the click-through does not work, copy and paste the URL into the address bar of your browser. We appreciate your time!
 

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Billing for Hospice service after discharge from facility

I am trying to find out how to appropriate bill for the admission to Hospice service that my physician discharged from hospital to hospice on Friday (last week). We use to be able to charge the G0180 hospice certification, but now this code seems only to be for Home Health and not Hospice. Can anyone help?

Medical Billing and Coding Forum

Medical Care at Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility

We have a physician from our outpatient office travelling to our Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility to provide non-mental health E/M services when requested. I am having a hard time defining The PRTF to select a code for this. I’ve tried to research what category this location would fall under and can’t find much.

Would I consider the PRTF to be a nursing facility?

Would this be considered a consultation because this physician is providing medical care not related to their mental health? Or would I code as regular E/M for the location type?

Any help is appreciated!

Medical Billing and Coding Forum

Utilizing MSR on outpatient facility claims

Hello. I am new to the AAPC so I apologize if I am going about this all wrong.

Does anyone have knowledge of a policy that supports the use of MSR (reductions) on outpatient facility claims. This has been a recent hot topic to us locally and I am looking for all the knowledge I can gain.

Thank you!

Medical Billing and Coding Forum

Home Sleep Study done in Skilled Nursing Facility. Need advice

Hi,

Has anyone ever encountered billing for a HST when the patient is in a SNF. We are a private group practice and not sure if we could bill this and be reimbursed. The insurance is Medicare.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. We typically bill 95806 with POS 12.

Thank you,
Michelle

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placenta specimen from outside facility

Hi fellow coders
Please help with a coding issue. We have an attending physician that requested we get the placenta from the birth hospital for an infant being treated at our facility. The placenta arrived along with slides (we did not request the slides, just the placenta) and their report. We grossed the placenta and the pathologist will review the outside slides along with the slides we processed. Do I code this as an outside consult even though the outside facility did not request the consult (88323)or level V specimen (88307)? Thanks

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Provider Seeing Pts at Substance Abuse Facility for Non Behavioral Health Issues

Hello All,
I have a provider who has been asked to see patients at a substance abuse facility. These are Ohio medicaid kids who are inpatients at the facility. She will be seeing them for routine care, sick vists etc. not related to their behavioral health. I’m trying to determine the correct POS and CPT’s to bill for these services. My thoughts are 99341-99350 with POS 55. Am I close?

Thanks for any input.

Tammie

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