As we prepare to sit down with our families for the holidays and enjoy a day of delicious food and good company, we here at TCI hope that you, too, have a wonderful celebration — not to mention a much-needed break from your CPT® Coding
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Get a Jumpstart on the 2019 CPT® Code Set: Part 2
If you’re just joining our overview of CPT® code changes for 2019, you might want to back up and start at the beginning of this series. In Part 1 , we lay out E/M code additions
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The air is getting brisk, and soon autumn leaves will fall. It seems appropriate, almost metaphorical, to change our code sets, doesn’t it? No sooner will you have acclimated to ICD-10 updates when CPT code changes come into effect on January 1st.
The 2019 CPT® (Current
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The first encounter your patients may have with your agency is via an Internet search for you. Your website, then, is your first opportunity to attract and convert patients and boost patient satisfaction. The user experience you provide should load quickly, state information clearly, and
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Payers get the upper hand because they are huge companies that can funnel resources into figuring out how not to reimburse you. Their most recent shell game is prior authorization.
“When I started out [prior authorization] never came up,” says Kevin de Regnier, an osteopath who
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According to a recent report by Zion Market Research, the global telehealth market will increase to as much as 12 million toward the end of 2022, a sign of the growing acceptance of remote medical services.
Change Request (CR) 9726 updates recently replaced the place of
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2017 CPT® Coding Updates: Make Room for Key Laryngoplasty & Flexible Laryngoscopy Changes
Remove “fiberoptic” from laryngoscopy codes.
CPT® 2017 packs some important changes general surgery coders don’t want to overlook. Effective Jan. 1, 2017, you’ll have a new specific code — 31573 — to use when your surgeons performs a flexible laryngoscopy with therapeutic injection. The new code
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Remember this modifier when coding for FBR and a separate E/M.
When a patient reports to the practice for a foreign body removal (FBR), there might be an opportunity to report an FBR code along with a separate evaluation and management (E/M) code.
The rub is finding that info in the encounter notes, and knowing when it
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With these services correct coding is all about the wound type.
When the physician performs multiple skin debridements for the same patient, you’ll need to know what separates a “surface” debridement from a deeper one, as it is the most important factor when coding these services.
The basics: Most physician practices will perform two types of debridement
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Remember: Include healthy tissue provider excises in final tally.
When faced with a lesion excision claim, you’ll need to follow a couple of specific guidelines to carve out all your deserved reimbursement.
The basics: Obtain the proper excision measurements — and properly ID the pathology of the lesion — and you’ll be on your way
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