Happy New Year, Boogie Down…

Happy New Year, Boogie Down... — Fun with ICD-10S93.421A — Ankle sprainnW18.49XA — Slipping, tripping, or stumblingnY93.41 — DancingnR78.0 — Finding of alcohol in bloodnY92.252 — Dance hall as the place of occurrencennIn preparation for the upcoming deadline for ICD-10 implementation, Welter Healthcare Partners presents weekly ICD-10 Codes of the Week! Our goal is to familiarize you with the new and expanded code set and the additional clinical documentation needed from your providers to comply with ICD-10 coding, and more importantly, for accurate and clean claims submission to keep your revenue stream flowing! We are to help YOU prepare for the October 1, 2015 implementation date. Please don’t hesitate to contact us for all of your training and education needs!

Grandma Got Run Over My A Reindeer

Grandma Got Run Over My A ReindeerS30.0XXA — Contusion of buttocksnW55.32XA — Struck by reindeernY92.89 — Santa’s driveway as the place of occurrencennIn preparation for the upcoming deadline for ICD-10 implementation, Welter Healthcare Partners presents weekly ICD-10 Codes of the Week! Our goal is to familiarize you with the new and expanded code set and the additional clinical documentation needed from your providers to comply with ICD-10 coding, and more importantly, for accurate and clean claims submission to keep your revenue stream flowing! We are to help YOU prepare for the October 1, 2015 implementation date. Please don’t hesitate to contact us for all of your training and education needs!

ICD-10 is Alive and Well, and Just Dodged the Biggest Bullet to Date

ICD-10 is Alive and Well, and Just Dodged the Biggest Bullet to DateSaturday night, in a rare weekend session, the so-called “Cromnibus” federal funding bill, “HR 83 – Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015” passed the US Senate without any amendments delaying ICD-10, after passing the House of Representatives late in the evening on Thursday, December 11. Selected physician groups had attempted to insert a two-year ICD-10 delay into the bill.nnThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has estimated that the last delay, enacted April 1 through a legislative act of Congress, has cost the healthcare industry approximately $6.8 billion in lost investments, not including the cost associated with missed opportunities for better health data to improve quality of care and patient safety.n

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Source: www.AHIMA.org; December 18, 2014.

Holiday Pastime Gone Awry…

shutterstock_91917503S68.011A — Complete traumatic amputation of right thumbnW01.118A — Fall with striking against sharp bladenV00.211A — Fall from ice-skatesnY92.330 — Ice skating rink as place of occurrencennIn preparation for the upcoming deadline for ICD-10 implementation, Welter Healthcare Partners presents weekly ICD-10 Codes of the Week! Our goal is to familiarize you with the new and expanded code set and the additional clinical documentation needed from your providers to comply with ICD-10 coding, and more importantly, for accurate and clean claims submission to keep your revenue stream flowing! We are to help YOU prepare for the October 1, 2015 implementation date. Please don’t hesitate to contact us for all of your training and education needs!

Important CMS Updates — Provider Enrollment Application Fee Amount for CY 2015

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nOn December 2, CMS issued a notice: Provider Enrollment Application Fee Amount for Calendar Year 2015 CMS-6056-N, effective January 1, 2015. This notice announces a $553.00 CY 2015 application fee for institutional providers that are initially enrolling in the Medicare or Medicaid program or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP); revalidating their Medicare, Medicaid, or CHIP enrollment; or adding a new Medicare practice location. This fee is required with any enrollment application submitted on or after January 1, 2015 and on or before December 31, 2015.n

CLICK HERE TO VIEW APPLICATION FEE REQUIREMENT MATRIX

nCMS extended the deadline to attest to meaningful use for the Medicare Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program 2014 nnEarly last week CMS extended the deadline for eligible hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) to attest to meaningful use for the Medicare Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program 2014 reporting year from 11:59 pm EST on November 30, 2014 to 11:59 pm EST on December 31, 2014. This extension will allow more time for hospitals to submit their meaningful use data and receive an incentive payment for the 2014 program year, as well as avoid the 2016 Medicare payment adjustment.n

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nSource: www.cms.gov; 2014.nn