tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2023 Issue Q2

Part B Coding Coach: ICD-10-CM: Conquer Incontinence Coding With These Terminology Tips

Know the difference between ‘urge’ and ‘stress’ incontinence. Reporting correct and accurate diagnosis codes on your incontinence claims is critical to keep denials low and get the pay you deserve. And that means utilizing the most specific ICD-10-CM diagnosis code possible. Another reason: The Centers for Medicaid & Medicaid Services (CMS) mentioned it’s keeping an extra-close eye on certain diagnoses, and one of them just happens to involve incontinence. Context: CMS listed sacral nerve stimulation for urinary incontinence as an “Approved Issue” for its Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) to review (www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Monitoring-Programs/Medicare-FFS-Compliance-Programs/Recovery-Audit-Program/Approved-RAC-Topics). Plus, in...

To read the full article, sign in and subscribe to tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement.


Keep pace with evolving Medicare regulations — and onboard your team — with timely analysis of critical updates interpreted in an easy-to-follow, easy-to-apply format. Your subscription to TCI's Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement Alert will equip you to navigate code and guideline changes, CCI edits, and revisions to modifiers, payer policies, the fee schedule, OIG target areas, and more.

  • Current newsletters added each month
  • Fully searchable archives - over 4200 articles
  • ALL years/issues back to 2003 organized by year and issue
  • Codes mentioned in articles are linked to Code Information pages
  • Code Information pages link back to related articles
Access to this feature is available in the following products:
  • tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement +Archives

demo
request yours today
 subscribe
start today
 newsletter
free subscription

Thank you for choosing Find-A-Code, please Sign In to remove ads.