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11/06/2023
New findings show that young physicians, laboring under huge medical school debt, are attracted to the jobs that promise the most generous compensation. If you want those providers and you can’t compete on price, however, there are other ways to get their attention.
11/06/2023
Coding and compliance veterans saw a nod to best documentation practices, a possible return to attesta- tions and potential billing confusion after their initial read of the 2024 CPT manual’s revised split or shared guidelines, released in early October.
11/06/2023
Under the current E/M guidelines for level-based services, previously vital components of code level selection — namely, the history and exam components — no longer factor into the level of decision-making. Instead, determining a level of service comes down to one of two components: Medical decision-making (MDM) or time.
11/06/2023
Question: Do the 2024 ICD-10-CM guidelines include any changes related to cardiovascular condition reporting?
11/06/2023
Question: Are coders required to report a social determinants of health (SDOH) ICD-10-CM code when a CPT code for an E/M service level is based on medical decision-making (MDM)?
11/06/2023
All but one code in the series of six initial (99221-99223) and subsequent (99231-99233) hospital care encounter codes saw a claims drop-off in the three-year period from 2020-2022, and providers saw a decline in total payments over the same span.

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