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Diagnosis Coding:

Final Rule Restores Pay For Seventh Character 'A'

Published on Fri Nov 13, 2015

Change will be retroactive to Oct. 1. An ICD-10 change that is taking money out of your pocket has been corrected in the 2016 Home Health Prospective Payment System Final Rule. Home health agencies were initially told that under ICD-10, they would never use “A” as a seventh character, indicating an initial encounter. Home health treatment would always be categorized [...]
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