Inpatient Facility Coding & Compliance Alert
In Your Facility on Par With New Health Record Access Rules?
Inpatient Facility Coding & Compliance Alert
- Reimbursement:
Proposed Medicare Fee Schedule Could Mean 3 Percent More for EDs in 2014
The CMS Proposed Rule Gives a Preview of What to Expect in 2014. Good news [...] - Infusion Procedures:
Follow 4 Steps for More Accurate Intra-Arterial Chemotherapy Coding
Tip: Start by understanding what ‘push’ means. When reporting treatment of primary liver cancer or [...] - Compliance:
In Your Facility on Par With New Health Record Access Rules?
Indecent disclosure: Why access report requirements are nothing to sneeze at. New HIPAA rules and [...] - You Be the Coder:
Reporting E Codes With PSI 15
Question: Our facility has created a team to focus on documentation concerns related to patient [...] - Reader Question:
Focus on Initial Reason for Admission When Listing Diagnoses
Question: A patient was admitted for a total hip replacement because of arthritis of the [...] - Reader Question:
Base Intraoperative Touch Prep Coding on Site Being Treated
Question: Please clarify if there’s a difference in how we should bill the following two [...] - Reader Question:
Report Pregnancy Diagnosis First, Even With Admission for Other Reasons
Question: When coding a psychiatric inpatient admission on a pregnant woman, do you use the [...] - Reader Question:
Verify MDs Before Coding Post-Op Seroma Closure
Question: Our emergency physician sutured a bleeding post-operative seroma at the incision site, which was [...]