Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Notes:

New dNPWT Billing On Deck

Get ready to change how you bill a wound therapy code starting Jan. 1. Reminder: “Medicare will make separate payment for HCPCS code A9272 on type of bill (TOB) 032x, instead of 034x,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says in MLN Matters Article MM13244 at www.cms.gov/files/document/mm13244-separate-payment-disposable-negative-pressure-wound-therapy-devices-home-health-claims.pdf. Medicare Administrative Contractors “will apply de­ductible and coinsurance,” points out HHH [...]
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