Flipped out over outpatient PPS.
The adjustment to Medicare's new outpatient prospective payment system has been anything but calm and orderly. Hospital billing offices have had to totally redo their systems. Ill-prepared providers are seeing claims tossed out and reimbursement delayed, with a definite impact on their bottom lines. Now, insurers are poised to adopt similar payment policies. What's needed in many cases is training and a coders-wanted sign, observers say.
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