Coding Issues for the Long-Term Acute Care & Skilled Nursing Facility Settings

The transition to ICD-10 has resulted in many coding changes that impact the major diagnoses found in long-term acute care (LTAC) and skilled nursing facilities (SNF) settings. Learn strategies to overcome the most common clinical documentation and principal diagnosis determination issues that are encountered in these settings. Topics covered include: -The major LTAC and SNF issues that differ from the short-term acute setting -The major differences between LTAC and SNF coding and sequencing The most common diagnoses treated in LTAC and SNF settings -How coding for the UB-04 intersects with minimum data set assessment of the patient’s level of functioning and the resource utilization group assignment that drives reimbursement for SNFs