Chrissyw

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1. Diagnosis Coding

   Chrissyw posted a topic in Hospice

   Ok My goal is to see what everyone is doing with the current Medicare changes in diagnoses. We have found some good substitutes for dementia but Adult Failure to Thrive is still baffling me. We are looking at getting albumins before admission and/o...

2. Hospice DX not dementa

   Chrissyw replied to Kerber's topic in Hospice

   You can't use dementia with codes in the 290 or 294 but you can use Alzheimers, Lewy body dementia and I think there's a degenerative brain These do not have those codes. With someone this age we know her brain has atrophied it all does as we age...