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09/29/2014
A glitch in CMS’ electronic health records (EHR) attestation website has put many first-time meaningful use attesters in jeopardy of a 2015 negative payment adjustment of 1%.
09/29/2014
You can improve your costs of care by following the formulas of successful accountable care organizations (ACOs), which have qualified for shared-savings payments of $445 million.
 
09/29/2014
Vascular embolization and occlusion codes 37241-37244 added in this year’s CPT manual received a number of new component codes in Version 20.3 of the National Correct Coding Initiative (CCI), which takes effect Oct. 1.
 
09/29/2014
You now can bill and get paid for hepatitis C screening tests for high-risk patients and for one lifetime test for any patient born between 1945 and 1965. But it may take until November to know how much you’ll get paid for the lab test, billed with new code G0472.
 
09/29/2014
Reduce your hospital readmissions through scheduling flexibility, maintaining relationships with patients and communicating clearly with facilities.
 
09/29/2014
Question: Are the new modifiers for use in January 2015 (XE, XS, XP and XU) valid only on procedures and not to be used on E/M services?
 
09/29/2014

If your internal medicine or family practice providers bill more than 90% of your established-patient E/Ms as level 3 and level 4, you could end up on an auditor’s radar.

 

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