In the 2022 NAHRI Leadership Council Survey, Custom Edits—Creation and Workflow, 100 leaders, including revenue integrity, health information management (HIM), and coding directors and managers primarily from acute care hospitals and health systems with 500+ beds, described their custom edit...
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Q: We are a critical access hospital (CAH). We provide smoking cessation therapy (CPT codes 99406-99407) in our cardiac rehab department. The documentation is done and signed by a respiratory therapist (RT), and we are currently billing this as a professional charge (on a UB-04 with revenue code 0981). My question is, can we bill this on a UB-04 as a facility charge only and still allow our RT or other ancillary staff to perform it?
A federal judge ruled in favor of the American Hospital Association (AHA) and other industry plaintiffs on September 28, ordering HHS to stop its reimbursement cuts to the 340B Drug Pricing Program for the remainder of the year.
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently released an audit report on Medicare integrity risks related to billing for telehealth services during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the OIG identified only a small portion of high-risk providers, it acknowledged the need for additional oversight as telehealth continues to grow in popularity.