Ask a Rev Cycle Expert: COVID Remote Patient Monitoring Billing?

Would it be appropriate for a HOPD to bill for 99453 and 99454 for remote patient monitoring (RPM) for patients discharged from the hospital with intent to monitor COVID symptoms/vitals via pulse oximetry?

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How to Design a Hospital Charge Capture Audit

Charge capture audit allows you to step outside the process in order to critically observe the process, recognize its defects, and improve it. In this article, we'll walk through best practices for developing your own hospital charge capture audit.

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Ask a Rev Cycle Expert: Remdesivir Administration Coding?

Under what revenue code should administration of remdesivir (Veklury®) be reported? Should the infusion of remdesivir be reported using the non-chemotherapy drug infusion codes 96365/96366?

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Recent Decisions in American Hospital Association (AHA) Lawsuits

There has been a lot of legal movement this year in the healthcare sector. In this article, we review lawsuits around the site neutral payment policy, disclosure of negotiated charges, and 340B payment reductions.

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(CY) 2021 CPT® Code Set Available Now in VitalKnowledge®

The American Medical Association (AMA) released the 2021 updates to the CPT code set on August 31, 2020 – the updates were made available for review in VitalKnowledge on the same day. These code changes will be effective on January 1, 2021, and are summarized within this article.

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Service Package Price Benchmarking Now Available with Vitalware Hospital Price Index™

The number one goal with developing Hospital Price Index (HPI) was to help hospitals fully comply with the price transparency mandate – and to do it with much less effort and stress than it’d take to do themselves. With that foundation in place, we looked for ways we could provide hospitals more value around their newly created service packages and pricing strategies. That’s where service package benchmarking comes in.

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Ask a Rev Cycle Expert: COVID Remote Patient Monitoring Billing?

How to Design a Hospital Charge Capture Audit

Ask a Rev Cycle Expert: Remdesivir Administration Coding?

Recent Decisions in American Hospital Association (AHA) Lawsuits

(CY) 2021 CPT® Code Set Available Now in VitalKnowledge®

Service Package Price Benchmarking Now Available with Vitalware Hospital Price Index™