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CMS has expanded its Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) coverage for postpartum care from 60 days to 12 months in California, Florida, Kentucky, and Oregon.
Bolstered with the right data, medical coder performance evaluations can be an empowering tool for your organization’s coding team. Performance reviews that have been fueled by research from coding compliance audits will only help coders improve and increase engagement with the organization.
Undercoding in healthcare is the action leaving out codes that reflect all the services and procedures performed. Not only does undercoding lead to lower revenue, but it also skews the healthcare provider’s claims data.
Several recent lawsuits have brought to light a list of risk adjustment schemes to increase reimbursements in violation of the False Claims Act. Here are some HCC coding 101 best practices to help your organization avoid scrutiny.
The Refresh With YES: CPT Modifiers Learning Path shows learners how to apply common CPT and HCPCS modifiers, providing examples of all and how the modifiers give additional information about specific situations.
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