tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2015 Issue 15

ICD-10 Update: Physician Payments Linked to Procedure, Not Diagnosis

Hint: ICD-10-CM defines diagnosis coding. Your Medicare payments could be at stake unless you’re aware of when you need to use ICD-10 codes and when you need CPT® codes to collect for your services from October. It is the setting which will define whether you need to use ICD-10-PCS codes or not. That was the word from the June 18 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) presentation, “ICD-10: Preparing for Implementation and New ICD-10-PCS Section X,” during which CMS reps dispelled several myths, answered questions and offered tips to practices. “The ICD-10 date is...

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