tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2007 Issue 2

HOSPITALS ~ Heads Up: WPS Medicare Changes ROS Documentation Requirement, Only To Reverse Its Decision

Don't change how you report ROS to Medicare payers. The end of 2006 featured a decision by a major Medicare carrier concerning documentation on review of systems (ROS). In it, the carrier contended that documentation for a complete ROS should be more detailed than Medicare requires in its 1995 or 1997 documentation guidelines (DGs).But after causing a brief panic in the coding community, the carrier refined its statement, putting its documentation requirements back in line with the 1995 DGs."This issue has continued to evolve," says Michael A. Granovsky, MD, CPC, FACEP, president of Medical Reimbursement Systems...

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