Home Health & Hospice Week

ICD-10 Edits Cause Claims Problems Already

The ICD-10 deadline has been put off at least a year, but the new code set may still be causing you trouble right now. Why? “Several diagnosis codes are both included in the ICD-9 and ICD-10 code files,” HHH Medicare Administrative Contractor CGS says on its website. “Therefore, billing transactions submitted with those ICD-9 codes are receiving reason code 31276 [...]
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