Facilities Articles and Resources

If you're looking for ankle fractures in ICD-10-PCS, you may need to look a little deeper. Let's take a look at coding an ankle fracture such as a trimalleolar fracture. PCS coding can be confusing as it is nothing like CPT coding; with CPT we can simply code an ankle ...

The UB-04 Claim Form, also known as CMS-1450, is used for submitting claims for reimbursement for specially designated facilities. The 837i is the electronic version of the form. Much like the 1500 Claim Form, maintained by the National Uniform Claim Committee, the UB-04 Claim Form is maintained by the National Uniform Billing Committee (NUBC) which maintains lists of approved codes used on various fields on the form (e.g., revenue codes, condition codes). Third-party payers, including Medicare, may have their own adaptations of the general instructions published by the NUBC.

Understanding hospital pricing can get complicated, so we have broken it down according to CMS and the acute Inpatient Prospective Payment System, also known as IPPS. Find-A-Code uses IPPS for inpatient pricing with our MS-DRG grouper. The following information comes from CMS.gov and answers the most common questions regarding DRGs ...