tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2007 Issue 21

SLPs: Look Out For More Descriptive Terms Under Dysphagia And Hearing Loss

Gear up for a slew of new 787.xx and 389.xx ICD-9s.The feds have released a tentative list of new, revised and invalid ICD-9 codes that go into effect on Oct. 1--and speech language pathologists have a lot to be keyed up about: that is, a lot more codes to choose from.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published the code changes as part of the Inpatient Prospective Payment System Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (IPPS NPRM) on April 13, 2007. More specifically, the American Speech-Language Hearing Association's (ASHA) Health Care Economics Committee proposed the SLP-related...

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