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10/22/2018
When a Medicare patient calls to request a routine physical, make sure your office is ready to pivot to – and communicate about – an annual wellness visit (AWV). Doing so will add dollars to your practice and insulate you from the threat of patients receiving non-covered services.
10/22/2018

The recent settlement agreement between the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the now-shuttered medical records storage company FileFax Inc. is a good reminder that providers and business associates need to comply with HIPAA and protect PHI not only when they possess or store it but also when they transmit it to each other.

10/22/2018

CMS has made what looks like large changes to the local coverage determination (LCD) process — but experts don’t think it will make it easier to get an inconvenient LCD changed.

10/22/2018

Question: A nurse practitioner told a patient to return after an office visit if his chest pain worsened, and the provider ordered a nuclear stress test to take place the next day. Can my provider count the plan for the stress test in the medical decision-making for the previous encounter, even if the diagnosis isn’t made until eight days after the face-to-face encounter?

10/22/2018

Question: All of a sudden, I am getting denials from everyone for billing 99214-25 with 94664 (Demonstration and/or evaluation of patient utilization of an aerosol generator, nebulizer, metered dose inhaler or IPPB device). Guidelines say billing the codes together is appropriate unless there is a recent change. Is anyone else seeing denials? Before this month, my claims were going through fine.

10/22/2018

Question: What do you know about payments for Zilretta injections? Anything specific that we need to know about billing?

10/22/2018

Experts say it’s still a tricky and underutilized service, but the numbers behind the annual wellness visit (AWV) wouldn’t make you think so

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