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04/03/2017
Practices will find it more challenging to reach a higher-level E/M because of one Medicare administrative contractor’s (MAC’s) changes to documentation requirements for detailed exams.
04/03/2017
You can continue to conduct business as usual with patients on health exchanges after the American Health Care Act (AHCA) went down without a vote. Facing opposition from both moderate Republicans and the more conservative House Freedom Caucus, the bill that would have repealed the Affordable Care Act...
04/03/2017
Give your patients the opportunity to set an agenda ahead of their office visits and you may witness improved patient engagement and clinical outcomes — while also saving yourself a significant amount of administrative time.
04/03/2017
CMS has made performing advance care planning (ACP) and getting paid for it easier in more situations by expanding a key benefit to the hospital outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS).
04/03/2017
Question: Can we get paid for 99444 (Online evaluation and management service provided by a physician or other qualified health care professional) or 99441-99442 (Telephone evaluation and management service by a physician or other qualified health care professional)?
04/03/2017
You may wonder whether National Government Services (NGS) has a specific reason for making it more challenging to reach higher-level E/M requirements with new exam specifications, while other Medicare administrative contractors (MACs) have not. Data suggests it doesn’t have to do with any unusual patterns in E/M billing denial rates in the 10 states NGS covers versus the rest of the country.

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