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Originally Posted by Becca9800
From your article: "However, organizations should prepare to comply with the new requirement by September 1. Organizations must ensure processes are in place to obtain accurate test results for all COVID-19 admissions. Clinical, HIM, CDI, and billing staff should be informed of the change, and coders and CDI specialists should query for missing test results. Organizations may need to review processes for obtaining test results from outside entities and should consider processes for holding inpatient COVID-19 claims that are pending test results. Organizations should reach out to their MACs to discuss operational and technical questions." Or are you suggesting hospital administration should not seek out permissible payments? No way, I don't think that's what you meant, you'd never pass up the same opportunity within your business (i.e. private practice).
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I've not read a single thing regarding "post-payment review" of covid payments...
And yes, I was referring to the first 6 months of the outbreak, where everything was deemed to be covid...