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Tag Archives: chronic kidney disease
Chronic Kidney Disease Stage 3
For 2021 coding, which begins on October 1, 2020, Chronic Kidney Disease Stage 3 (N18.3) was changed to N18.30 Chronic Kidney Disease Stage 3, unspecified (This code corresponds to Glomerular Filtration Rates (GFRs) between 30 and 59.) N18.31 Chronic Kidney … Read Full Post
Tagged chronic kidney disease, CKD 3, icd-10-cm
Combination Codes
One interesting and time-saving feature of ICD-10-CM codes is the combination code. Just like Burger King, McDonald’s and other fast food eateries, the world of coding has combos; the food-oriented ones save us money and the coding combos save us … Read Full Post
2014 Holds Big Changes for the CMS-HCC Model
The purpose of the CMS-HCC model is to improve the accuracy in predicting the costliness of Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollees’ healthcare costs and to properly fund MA plans for those expenses. It isn’t a perfect model but it surpasses the … Read Full Post
Tagged annual wellness visits, center for medicare and medicaid services, chronic kidney disease, cms-hcc model, ffs medicare, government accountability office, health risk appraisals, hierarchical condition categories, medicare advantage enrolles risk scores, medicare advantage plans, medicare payment advisory commission, medicare risk adjustment, mra, national institutes of health, national kidney foundation, risk adjustment in medicare advantage, risk scores, the patient protection and affordable care act