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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 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).
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.

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