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Home Care Coding Expert is the official magazine of AHCC.

In this issue…
With OASIS-C implementation hitting the home care industry in January 2010, there are many questions being asked about what guidelines to use in order to correctly answer the pressure ulcer section (M1300-M1350). The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published in the OASIS-C guidance manual in September 2009, but final guidance… Read More

Learning Moment of the Month

Stage 3 and stage 4 pressure ulcers can close, but they never heal. Thus they always should be coded because the patient is always at risk for further skin breakdown, coding experts agree. Read More