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Post Using the V 66.7 Palliative Code
Author: donnamhyatt
Date: Jan 11, 2008 1:07 pm
If MEDPAR data submits only 8 or 9 secondary diagnoses and V667 is #11 how will they receive this? It is my understanding that we send MEDPAR data to GHA, and GHA distributes it to the powers that be. I am not aware of a separate abstraction that is submitted for just V667. If we are supposed to be using the V code for CMS to determine if any additional money will be available for this code then we certainly want to get credit for each V code that we use, in addition to allowing us to decrease our reported mortality statistics.
Please educate me on how these codes are tracked by MEDPAR and others.
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