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Providers could have 435 code changes to deal with starting Oct. 1 with 247 new codes, 139 revised codes and 49 codes rendered invalid, according to the hospital inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) proposed rule released April 24.
The 2018 DecisionHealth/HCPro medical coder salary survey launched on March 30 and will remain open for three weeks. One respondent will win a $25 Amazon gift card.
After a brief shutdown and a Rand Paul minifilibuster, Congress passed a “Bipartisan Budget Bill” and, as the issue of Part B News released just before the vote predicted, it addressed two big Part B payment issues that we’ve been covering: the expiration of the Work GPCI floor and the expiration of the therapy cap exception.
The slight increase in the conversion factor means little or no change in reimbursement for most of your E/M codes and other high volume services – with two exceptions.
The final rule for year two of the Quality Payment Program (QPP) makes a few departures from the proposed rule -- the most surprising of which is the early return of the cost category for the merit-based incentive payment system (MIPS).

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