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Coding - Practice Guidelines and Tips - 2023

Documentation and Coding: Alcohol and Drug Related Disorders, CMS-HCC_V28 Model Updates

This tip sheet is intended to assist providers and coding staff with the documentation and ICD-10-CM selection, along with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) Version 28 Model Updates, on services submitted to Healthfirst—specifically for common types of alcohol- and drug-related disorders.

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Clinical Documentation Improvement

CMS-HCC_V28 Model Updates

Coding - Practice Guidelines and Tips - 2023

Documentation and Coding: Pulmonary Embolism, CMS-HCC_V28 Model Updates

This tip sheet is intended to assist providers and coding staff with the documentation and ICD-10-CM selection, along with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) Version 28 Model Updates, on services submitted to Healthfirst—specifically for Pulmonary Embolism.

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Clinical Documentation Improvement

CMS-HCC_V28 Model Updates

Provider Alerts - Behavioral Health and Foster Care - Practice Guidelines and Tips - 2023

Cultural Competency Training for Participating Providers

New York State Department of Health requires providers and their office staff who have regular and substantial contact with Healthfirst members certify annually the completion of Cultural Competency Training.

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Behavioral Health

Coding - Practice Guidelines and Tips - 2023

Documentation and Coding: Fractures, CMS-HCC_V28 Model Updates

This tip sheet is intended to assist providers and coding staff with the documentation and ICD-10-CM selection, along with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) Version 28 Model Updates, on services submitted to Healthfirst—specifically for fractures.

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Clinical Documentation Improvement

CMS-HCC_V28 Model Updates

Compliance, Regulatory & Policies - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2024

Reimbursement Policy: PO-RE-001 Vitamin D Testing

Vitamin D is a precursor to steroid hormones and plays a key role in calcium absorption and mineral metabolism.

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Compliance, Regulatory & Policies - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2024

Reimbursement Policy: PO-RE-065 Diagnosis of Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance

Idiopathic environmental intolerance (IEI), formerly called multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), is a subjective condition characterized by recurrent, nonspecific symptoms attributed to low levels of chemical, biologic, or physical agents in the absence of consistent objective diagnostic physical findings or laboratory tests that define an illness (AAAAI, 1999; ACOEM, 1999; Black & Temple, 2023).

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Compliance, Regulatory & Policies - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2024

Reimbursement Policy: PO-RE-004 Parathyroid Hormone, Phosphorus, Calcium, and Magnesium Testing

Parathyroid hormone (PTH), along with calcitriol and fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23), regulate calcium and phosphate homeostasis.

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Compliance, Regulatory & Policies - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2024

Reimbursement Policy: PO-RE-005 Diagnostic Testing of Iron Homeostasis & Metabolism

Iron, an essential nutrient with a variety of biological uses, is tightly regulated in vivo to maintain homeostasis.

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Compliance, Regulatory & Policies - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2024

Reimbursement Policy: PO-RE-007 Intracellular Micronutrient Analysis

Micronutrients are dietary components, often referred to as vitamins and minerals, which although only required by the body in small amounts, are vital to development, disease prevention, and wellbeing.

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Compliance, Regulatory & Policies - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2024

Reimbursement Policy: PO-RE-011 Lyme Disease Testing

Lyme disease is a common multisystem inflammatory disease caused by spirochetes of the family Borreliaceae transmitted through the bite of an infected tick of the genus Ixodes (Barbour, 2022).

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Compliance, Regulatory & Policies - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2024

Reimbursement Policy: PO-RE-019 Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is an RNA retrovirus that infects human immune cells, specifically CD4 cells, causing progressive deterioration of the immune system ultimately leading to acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) characterized by susceptibility to opportunistic infections and HIV-related cancers (CDC, 2014). HIV-1 is the dominant subtype of HIV infection, but another subtype, HIV-2, is a crucial subtype in certain areas of the world, such as Western Africa (Wood, 2023).

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Compliance, Regulatory & Policies - Policy, Billing, or Coverage Update - 2024

Reimbursement Policy: PO-RE-020 Onychomycosis Testing

Onychomycosis, also known as tinea unguium (Wollina et al., 2016), is a fungal infection of the nail typically caused by pathogenic fungal dermatophytes, such as Trichophyton rubrum, Trichophyton mentagrophytes, and Epidermophyton floccossum; onychomycosis may also be caused by yeasts, including Candida parapsilosis and Candida guilliermondii, or non-dermatophyte molds, including Neoscytalidium dimidiatum, Onychocola canadensis, the Aspergillus species, Scopulariopsis species, Alternaria species, Acremonium species, and Fusarium species (Ameen et al., 2014; Bongomin et al., 2018; Wollina et al., 2016).

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