Primary care practices could get a little extra money because of deleted edits that led to reimbursement changes in the latest National Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) edits. But most practices - other than neurosurgery, orthopedic, urology and oncology specialties - won’t see major code pair changes in 2012’s second quarter.

Instruct physicians to use adjectives to document how sick hospital patients remain during subsequent hospital visits – instead of writing “stable” or “improving” – to avoid claims denials.

Over the years, you have been unknowingly overpaid by Medicare because of changes in CMS’ fee schedule, but you’re going to have to pay it all back – potentially thousands of dollars – thanks to recovery auditor Connolly’s new probe.

A growing number of hospitals, plans and other entities are offering physicians subsidies for the cost of electronic health record (EHR) systems, but before agreeing to a deal, make sure it will benefit your practice.

This chart looks at national physician turnover rates based on two variables – number of physicians at the practice and the type of practice ownership. All data comes from the 2011 Physician Retention Survey, a joint effort of the American Medical Group Association (AMGA) and Cejka Search, a health care recruitment company.

Is code G0289 (surgical knee arthroscopy with surgery to remove loose/foreign body or chondroplasty at the time of other arthroscopy on the same knee) still applicable even though CPT changed the descriptors of 29880 (surgical knee arthroscopy with meniscectomy [medial and lateral] including chondroplasty, same or separate compartment[s]) and 29881 (surgical knee arthroscopy with meniscectomy [medial or lateral] including chondroplasty same or separate compartment[s])?

This is a table of all retroactive deleted code pairs from CCI's version 18.1 second quarter edits. You can rebill and get separately paid for many of the services in the once bundled pairs.