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06/11/2018

Your E/M office coding can get tricky when you base your level of service on time spent with the patient, but understanding when to use time thresholds, such as during counseling-based visits, will give your coding a boost — especially when tacking on prolonged services to your encounter codes.

06/11/2018

The Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative failed to substantially bend the Medicare spending curve, according to a new report. But leaders on the ground remain bullish about the value-based program, which they say has positioned their practices for long-term success.

06/11/2018

It doesn’t cost anything to ask for a correction if you find a possible Medicare coding error. And, as a Syracuse orthopedic practice discovered, you may end up reversing a troublesome code restriction that has been in effect for more than a decade.

06/11/2018

Recent evidence suggests good non-clinical practice employees — from receptionists, billers and coders to managers and department heads — have gotten harder to hire and keep and that you’ll have to spend money and look in new directions to do so.

06/11/2018

Providers have seen no big break in the long tradition of high denials for both initial (G0438) and subsequent (G0439) annual wellness visits (AWVs), nor for the Welcome to Medicare visit (G0402; also known at the Initial Preventive Physical Examination or IPPE).

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