To help healthcare providers prepare for ICD-10, CMS has released new checklists and timelines for small and medium provider practices, large provider practices, small hospitals and payers. These resources are designed to give a high-level understanding of what the ICD-10 transition requires and how each provider’s ICD-10 preparations compare with recommended time frames. Many […]
There are indications that the nature and purpose of point-of-care home health software is changing. Originally a tool limited to recording patient data at the patient’s home and delivering it electronically to a central database, it appears to be evolving into something significantly more comprehensive and potentially more valuable. Software demonstrated at last month’s NAHC […]
Saying it wanted to give customers sufficient time to meet the October, 2014 transition to ICD-10, First Databank announced Monday the availability of the Tenth Revision of the International Classification of Diseases code set ICD-10-CM (clinical modification) and ICD-10-PCS (procedure coding system) within FDB MedKnowledge™, the company’s proprietary clinical drug knowledge database. Details about how […]
Medicare contractor CGS, which provides home health and hospice claims processing services in 17 states and the District of Columbia, has identified two computer errors that have been incorrectly rejecting certain claims for all Medicare contractors. The author provides an explanation of the errors drawn from the CGS web site, followed by specific information […]
