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NCD decisions are binding on all Medicare contractors, and LCD policy can be no more restrictive than the NCD, although it can be less restrictive. [2] If an NCD or other coverage provision states that an item is "covered for diagnoses/conditions A, B and C", contractors should not use that as a basis to develop an LCD to cover only "diagnoses ...
In 2015 CMS identified 254 quality measures for which providers may choose to submit data. The measures map to U.S. National Quality Standard (NQS) health care quality domains: [4]
Clinical documentation improvement (CDI), also known as "clinical documentation integrity", is the best practices, processes, technology, people, and joint effort between providers and billers that advocates the completeness, precision, and validity of provider documentation inherent to transaction code sets (e.g. ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS, CPT, HCPCS) sanctioned by the Health Insurance ...
The MDS is updated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Specific coding regulations in completing the MDS can be found in the Resident Assessment Instrument User's Guide. Versions of the Minimum Data Set has been used or is being utilized in other countries.
The Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) is a widely used set of performance measures in the managed care industry, developed and maintained by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). HEDIS was designed to allow consumers to compare health plan performance to other plans and to national or regional benchmarks.
Medicare permits insurers to add their own diagnoses to ones submitted by patients’ own doctors. The analysis, however, found many diagnoses were added for which patients received no treatment ...
Utilization management is "a set of techniques used by or on behalf of purchasers of health care benefits to manage health care costs by influencing patient care decision-making through case-by-case assessments of the appropriateness of care prior to its provision," as defined by the Institute of Medicine [1] Committee on Utilization Management by Third Parties (1989; IOM is now the National ...
The ICD-10 Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) is a set of diagnosis codes used in the United States of America. [1] It was developed by a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human services, [2] as an adaption of the ICD-10 with authorization from the World Health Organization.