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06/19/2017

Take note of the latest health policy updates from Washington, D.C., that affect physician practices:

06/19/2017

An HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) report finds massive overpayments in the Medicare electronic health record (EHR) incentive program and encourages CMS to recover those payments from providers and make changes to new programs to prevent future errors.

06/19/2017
Bring in the latest billing edits from the Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) to avoid getting caught up in code-pair traps that may stymie your claims. The new edits, effective July 1, encompass E/M codes, moderate sedation services, injections and more.
06/19/2017

Don’t get ahead of the strict coding requirements you need to meet E/M encounters for new patients.

06/19/2017

Question: What can I do when a particular Medicare administrative contractor (MAC) has overstepped its bounds in a specific local coverage determination (LCD)?

06/19/2017
Maybe practice makes perfect. Some specialties that billed new patient office E/M codes more than a million times in 2015 actually did well with them, compared with the generally high overall denial rate for those codes.

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