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12/15/2014
Your providers could get an additional 0.5% payment bonus through their medical boards if they’re properly reporting PQRS data and are board-certified — but they have to hurry.
12/15/2014
The finalization of a Medicare enrollment rule puts your practice in danger of disruption if you haven’t tightened up your personnel practices.
 
12/15/2014
Gastroenterology providers are faced with the prospect of using two code sets when billing for lower GI procedures in 2015 — a set of G codes for Medicare and new and revised CPT codes for other payers.
12/15/2014
Don’t throw out your 2014 guidance for coding quantitative drug tests. Providers who perform tests such as drug confirmation and quantitative drug screens will have to use two code sets next year, and it won’t be easy to cross-walk between the two. In addition to a new set of CPT codes for use by a number of private payers, you’ll need to use HCPCS codes that are modeled on the 2014 CPT codes to report your services to Medicare.
12/15/2014

CMS and AMA coding officials clarified policies last month at the AMA’s CPT and RBRVS 2015 Annual Symposium in Chicago (PBN 12/8/14). Here are two more points to note.

 
12/15/2014
The number of initial annual wellness visits (AWVs) billed by practices dropped from almost 2.2 million when the code was introduced in 2011 to 1.5 million in 2013, the latest Medicare data show. But denials for the service (G0438) increased from 10.7% in 2011 to 20.1% in 2013, the data show.
 

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