Home Health & Hospice Week

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Don't Overlook These New Billing Codes Required Jan. 1

Make sure your policies and procedures are in place to track which nursing visits are for management & evaluation and observation and assessment. Don't let new billing codes for therapy and nursing, which take effect in the new year, get lost in the chaos of other requirements that begin next month. Starting Jan. 1, home health agencies must use five new G-codes to list services in 15-minute increments for physical therapy assistants (GXXX1), occupational therapy assistants (GXXX2), PTs (GXXX3), OTs (GXXX4), and speech language pathologists (GXXX5), regional home health intermediary Cahaba GBA says in its December newsletter for providers. HHAs also must use two new nursing codes -- GXXX6 (Skilled services by licensed nurse, in delivery of management & evaluation of POC, or observation & assessment of patient's condition while patient's treatment regime is stabilized, in home health setting, each 15 minutes) and GXXX7 (Skilled services by licensed nurse, in training [...]
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