HealthLeaders Media June 1, 2020
Revenue Cycle Advisor

CMS states that it did not create new MS-DRG weights to implement the 20% increase in the MS-DRG weight provided by the CARES Act.

A version of this article was first published June 1, 2020, by HCPro’s Revenue Cycle Advisor, a sibling publication to HealthLeaders.

CMS on May 27 released new novel coronavirus (COVID-19) Medicare billing FAQs to address questions related to payment for inpatient services billed during the public health emergency (PHE).

The new FAQs are in Section F (Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems [IPPS] Payments under the CARES [Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security] Act) of the document and address the following topics:

  • ICD-10-CM coding for COVID-19 discharges.

According to CMS, coders should report ICD-10-CM code...

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