| Title:
Overview of Personal Care, HHA, and PDN Services
Presenter: Kateryna (Kate) Patskovska, CPB, AAPC Approved Instructor (CPB-I)
Time: 58.38 minutes
Description: Learn the proper HCPCS codes and modifiers for personal care services, home health services, and private duty nursing services to ensure proper billing and reimbursement. Federal and state policies are discussed to help billers and coders understand which claim to use when billing for these services.
Objectives:
- Reduce denials by using the proper codes for personal care services, home health aide services, and private duty nursing services.
- Ensure proper billing and reimbursement by appending the proper modifiers to the services rendered.
- Discuss several medical policy examples for personal care, home health, and private duty nursing services.
- Answer the question: Which claim to use when billing any of these three services?
Key Points:
Section I. Personal Care Services
- Personal care services codes with definition and general coverage
- Personal care services codes with descriptions
- Examples of medical policies for personal care services (NY Medicaid, BCBS of Minnesota)
Section II. Home Health Aide (HHA)Services
- General definition of home health aide services with general qualifications
- Traditional Medicare home health aide services billing/coding
- Additional codes that are required for traditional Medicare HHA billing
- Aetna Home Health Aide medical policy with codes
Section III. Private Duty Nursing (PDN) Services
- PDN services general information with codes
- New York State (NYS) Medicaid PDN services policy
- NYS Medicaid PDN enhanced payment programs
- Washington State Medicaid PDN services policy
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Speaker
Kateryna Patskovska, CPB, AAPC Approved Instructor (CPB-I)
I am a certified medical biller as well as an AAPC Approved Instructor for Medical Billing (CPB-I). I have over 15 years of experience in Healthcare field serving in various positions: medical receptionist, medical biller, supervisor, Practice Manager, etc.
My current and past public speaking engagements include AMBA, SFHIMA chapter and various AAPC Chapters. As for my recorded AAPC CEU approved webinars, you will be able to find them in an online library of BC Advantage Magazine. I am also a published author in the AAPC HBM magazine (November 2021 Issue). If you are interested in my upcoming speaking engagements, please see my home page!
Currently, I am available as a part-time medical billing and coding tutor on Varsity Tutors platform as well as a Health Care Program Planner/Analyst at MetroPlus Health.
https://kr2billing.com/
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