CMS recently released the fiscal year (FY) 2018 IPPS final rule which featured updates to various quality initiatives, along with annual payment updates for inpatient services.
You may be thinking that you’ve never heard of scleroderma. As a coder, we know to look at these big fancy words and break them down by their root words in order to get a clue of what we’re talking about.
The fiscal year (FY) 2018 IPPS final rule includes updates to payment rates and quality initiatives, but some of the most extensive changes pertain to MS-DRG classifications and relative weights.
One of the reasons that we all read Briefings in Coding Compliance Strategies is to maintain our competence and quality in coding and risk-adjustment principles as to anticipate how recovery auditors and accountability agents view our coded data. While a good compliance officer and attorney knows the law, the better one knows the law, the judge, and the jury.
