Home Health Line Breaking News
03/07/2012

New details on the ICD-10 delay were scarce at the ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee Meeting in Baltimore on March 5.

CMS has yet to decide how much extra time there will be or whether the current partial code freeze on ICD-9 will be lifted.

03/05/2012

CMS has been working on implementing fines and other less severe punishments for agencies with survey deficiencies that don’t warrant termination from Medicare – since 1987.

A new report by the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) now takes CMS to task for its lack of action.

02/24/2012

Three of the four Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) have begun work on home health audits, HHL has learned.

02/24/2012

Dead on arrival” once again is the House Republican mantra in response to President Obama’s latest budget, for fiscal 2013.

02/14/2012

You could get more time to prepare for the industry switch to ICD-10.

03/27/2000
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which was declared a national emergency earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is implementing a new diagnosis code U07.1 (COVID-19) into the ICD-10-CM code set.

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