tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2007 Issue 7

DIAGNOSIS CODING: Take Advantage Of Larger Space For Diagnosis Codes In July

Urge your carrier to expand 1500 form to recognize multiple diagnoses.Complex patients require more than a few diagnosis codes, and your carriers may finally be catching up.What's new: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently issued a transmittal (CR5441) instructing carriers to consider all diagnosis codes on a claim, up to eight codes. The carriers have until July 1 to update the Medicare carrier standard system to meet this requirement. This change will definitely help with conditions that require more than one code to report, such as diabetic complications, says Jan Rasmussen with Professional Coding...

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