Patient-Driven Groupings Model:
Be Aware Of These Clinical Group Code Changes
Published on Fri Dec 06, 2019
Final rule contains some last-minute reshuffling. The addition of dysphagia codes isn’t the only diagnosis coding change in the 2020 home health final rule. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services adds six dysphagia symptom codes to the Patient-Driven Groupings Model case mix system in the 2020 final rule (see Eli’s HCW, Vol. XXVIII, No. 42). But CMS also moves [...]