Long-Term Care insurance not only costs big bucks, the approval process for getting it can also resemble an Olympic obstacle course – especially when pre-existing conditions or other situations exist. Insurance companies are running a business, after all, so they apply tight standards to long-term care insurance applications to screen […]
Decoding ICD-10-CM for Hospices
The changeover to the new coding concepts of ICD-10 on October 1, 2015 will be a major overhaul for the hospice community, especially due to such a large portion of reimbursement being diagnosis driven. ICD-10-CM for hospice providers is the replacement coding system for the obsolete ICD-9 procedure coding in […]