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COVID Times and Growing Telehealth Opportunities - Part 4
Part 4 – Commonly Overlooked Coding Guidelines and Denial Trends
With CMS waivers in place to facilitate coverage of a wide range of Telehealth services, Healthcare sectors are experiencing a new level of complexity to keep pace with evolving codes, guidelines, and payer specifics to enable first-pass ratio of Telehealth claims.
It is therefore important to stay prepped to handle the expected surge in coding denials associated with these virtual visits, to begin with, alongside strategizing ways and means to reduce them.
Coding denial management experts rely on 4 key ground rules when resolving coding edits and denials that very much apply to Telehealth-related denials too.
COVID Times and Growing Telehealth Opportunities: Part 3 – An Overview of New ICD-10-CM’s, Payor Specifics and Case Studies
Part 3 – An Overview of New ICD-10-CM’s, Payor Specifics, and Case Studies
In this edition, we would like to throw light on the new ICD-10-CM codes that came into existence during the COVID times and changing Payor specifics when billing for Telehealth. Case Studies are appended to assist coding through real-time scenarios and to elaborate application of coding directives.
