Archive for The Day of October 26th, 2006
Archive for the Day of October 26th, 2006
Welcome to the medical billing blog archive for the day of October 26th, 2006.
Here you will find links to every article added to the Outsource Management Group web site during October 26th, 2006.
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Will Inaccurate Activities of Daily Living Scores Hurt You?
You bet. ADL coding is something that auditors will be watching heavily and if you’re not calculating yours correctly, you’ll penalized and fined. One way to make sure your facility is well within the guidelines of billing permissibly and ethically is to do a RUG profile of your residents and compare your facility to the state and national averages. You can compare your facility to the other agencies in your state against the national averages at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Web site:(http://www.cms.hhs.gov/www.cms.hhs.gov/apps/mds). If you find that your facility has far fewer rehab RUGs ending in C’s and far more A’s than the national or state average, than …