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The heart of the principal diagnosis selection is pivotal to accuracy and compliance. Since February is known as “National Heart Month,” a discussion on the heart of inpatient coding is appropriate, that being the “principal diagnosis.” When learning inpatient coding, a large amount of time is spent on...

Critical Care Services — Medicare's final ruling has been released. This article discusses the changes to critical care services, including bundled services, concurrent services, global surgery, time spent performing CCS services, and documentation requirements. It also lists the two new modifiers.

If you're looking for ankle fractures in ICD-10-PCS, you may need to look a little deeper. Let's take a look at coding an ankle fracture such as a trimalleolar fracture. PCS coding can be confusing as it is nothing like CPT coding; with CPT we can simply code an ankle ...

The UB-04 Claim Form, also known as CMS-1450, is used for submitting claims for reimbursement for specially designated facilities. The 837i is the electronic version of the form. Much like the 1500 Claim Form, maintained by the National Uniform Claim Committee, the UB-04 Claim Form is maintained by the National Uniform Billing Committee (NUBC) which maintains lists of approved codes used on various fields on the form (e.g., revenue codes, condition codes). Third-party payers, including Medicare, may have their own adaptations of the general instructions published by the NUBC.