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01/16/2017

Review your meaningful use data to make sure you haven’t misplaced reportable data such as patient smoking status, and get ready not only to attest but also to testify should Figliozzi and Company pick you for a meaningful use audit.

01/16/2017

You can offer patients transportation to and from your office for appointments and more items for free or at a discount now that the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) has softened some of the harshness of the anti-kickback statute and the civil monetary penalties law in a series of rules and announcements released Dec. 7.

01/16/2017

Don’t sleepwalk through your encounters with patients needing referrals for continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment — the complex coverage requirements for CPAP might easily be leading to unintended denials.

01/16/2017

Practices gearing up for the first year of the merit-based incentive payment system (MIPS) may want to take part in a CMS study assessing the segment of MIPS that’s brand new to reporting entities — the clinical practice improvement activities (CPIAs) performance category.

01/16/2017

Question: When two surgeons are working a patient, when is modifier 62 (Two surgeons) appropriate and when is modifier 80 (Assistant surgeon) appropriate?

01/16/2017
Some specialty groups may want to take a closer look at their coding and billing processes for office visit codes 99201-99215 after a new report from CMS details more than a billion-dollar blunder.

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