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SIA Adjustments Cause More Billing Headaches

Published on Fri Mar 03, 2017

If you tried to secure a claims adjustment for a Service Intensity Add-on error and failed, you can now try again. The problem: “The unsolicited adjustment” for End of Life SIA payments “did not auto create when the subsequent claim was billed with the discharge equal to deceased (patient status 40, 41, 42) and the DOD occurred within the 1st days of [...]
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