Stop revenue loss with expert guidance to keep your otolaryngology claims in tiptop shape.
If otolaryngology coding confusion has you concerned about reimbursement loss, this post is for you. Join Brett Rosenberg, MA, CPC, CCS-P, COC,
Stop revenue loss with expert guidance to keep your otolaryngology claims in tiptop shape.
If otolaryngology coding confusion has you concerned about reimbursement loss, this post is for you. Join Brett Rosenberg, MA, CPC, CCS-P, COC, editor-in-chief of TCI’s Otolaryngology Coding Alert, and Barbara J. Cobuzzi,
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Gear up for PDPM and get atrial fibrillation vs. atrial flutter right every time.
With an interest in knowing precisely why a resident ends up in a nursing facility, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will implement the patient-driven payment model (PDPM) in just
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If you’ve been following the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposals for revamping the evaluation and management (E/M) guidelines, you’ll know that part of the goal for these efforts is to simplify the regulations, especially the documentation, for these services.
Those attempts continue with
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Coding for cerumen (earwax) removal is going to get a whole lot easier in 2016.
Reason: CPT® is introducing 69209 (Removal impacted cerumen using irrigation/lavage, unilateral). This code will allow you to code for encounters when your provider removes impacted cerumen using irrigation or lavage. Previous
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“Am I at risk?” This question comes up so often when I am approached at conferences by practice managers and physicians. Many in the healthcare industry have a sense of dread when thinking about what could happen if they are targeted for a government audit
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One of your full-time physicians goes on vacation – or sabbatical or maternity leave. Your practice employs a locum tenens (lt) to fill in for the missing physician.
No problem, until you try to bill for the substitute physician’s services with Medicare – or payers who
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