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Navigating Medicare Advantage: Strategies for Hospitals to Tackle Growing Challenges

EvidenceCare

These include updates to the Star Ratings system, RADV (Risk Adjustment Data Validation) audits, the upcoming 2025 Final Rule containing the final rate announcements, and adjustments to prior authorization requirements. Document why you believe that. She provides education to physicians to document their internal monologue.

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Upcoming ICD-10 Code Changes for October 1, 2024: What You Need to Know 

Health Prime

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the ICD-10-CM code set update for fiscal year (FY) 2025. Staying abreast of these updates is crucial for medical practices, billing specialists, and healthcare providers to ensure accurate documentation, seamless billing processes, and compliance with regulatory standards.

Billing 105
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Why Care Coordination Is Important for Home Health and Hospice Agencies

Relias

The HHCAHPS Survey will determine 30% of an agency’s total performance score, and that score will in turn determine the agency’s payment adjustment for 2025. Documentation in the medical record. As part of discharge planning. Document all coordination. If it didn’t get documented, it didn’t get done.”.

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