This checklist is intended to provide health care providers with a reference for use when responding to additional documentation requests for transitional care management (TCM) services.
When a patient enrolls in or disenrolls from a Medicare Advantage plan during his/her inpatient stay, the following factors will determine whether to bill the Medicare Advantage plan and/or original Medicare.
The January Integrated Outpatient Code Editor (IOCE) expands editing related to manifestation diagnosis codes. Read this article to find out more about the editing.
Review the top denial / partial denial reasons and high-level results of evaluation and management services - initial inpatient care visits and subsequent inpatient care visits TPE round results.
The nation's leading MACs have joined together to create the CERT A/B MAC Outreach & Education Task Force. This unified educational initiative benefits providers as well as the Medicare program.