Skilled Nursing Billing: Understanding Which Diagnosis Code to Use
Selecting codes for your Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) claims can often be mind-boggling. Residents are admitted to SNFs with varying length of stays and the admission reason is often different from the reason for continued stay. Diagnosis codes can be assigned at the time of admission, concurrently as diagnosis arises, and at the time of discharge. In any of these situations, a principal diagnosis may represent the admission diagnosis, the reason for continued stay, or discharge…