Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Why home health coders hold the edge as the healthcare arena continues to change

Complexity of home health coding dwarfs hospital issues.

A little more than 10 years ago in home health (HH), an agency could code as it wanted, with few restrictions, and get reimbursed at a high rate with no annual patient cap. Coding didn’t matter, according to many, because there wasn’t stringent regulation surrounding it. It was a time of PAIN-FREE CODING (TM).

Learn about the signifigant regulatory changes that have taken place over the last decade or so, and see some of the issues that distinguish HH coding from hospital coding. 

Read more of this article on the Daymarck website.

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