Home Health ICD-9/ICD-10 Alert
Review These PPS Changes As You Prepare For The New Year
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Plan now for immediate staff training.
The 2008 PPS changes made accurate home care coding critical. Implementing what was learned in 2008 is essential to the success of home care agencies in the following year. Learn the latest information to fine tune your coding process from expert Trish Twombly. Topics covered during Coding and PPS: Lessons Learned Through 2008 Changes will include the relationship between coding and PPS and how it affects accuracy in your claims, the importance of secondary diagnoses and when to code them under M0240, and the 3 things you may be missing when sequencing diagnoses. Join Twombly for this 60- minute audioconference Thurs. Jan. 22 at 1 pm ET. For more information, visit www.audioeducator.com/industry_conference.php?id=1347 or call 1-800-508-2582.
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