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05/18/2020

If you’re reopening your practice during the COVID-19 pandemic, make sure that, along with the clinical and logistical steps you’re taking to protect staff and patients, you’ve also taken steps to protect your practice from legal and insurance issues related to its fallout.

05/18/2020
Coders will have hundreds of new ICD-10-CM codes to report Oct. 1, including codes for sickle cell anemia and arthritis. In addition, they’ll find a series of new options for headache codes.
05/18/2020

You need to know when you should — and should not — disregard a patient’s established status during the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE).

05/18/2020
If you use Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment (CLIA) waivers for testing, be aware that two COVID-19 tests are now CLIA-waived and require the use of the QW (CLIA waived test) modifier.
05/18/2020
Practices should ignore the HCPCS codes that have been created for COVID-19 specimen collection and report a Level 1 established patient visit (99211) for those encounters.
05/18/2020
Question: The initial preventive physical examination (IPPE) requires a “visual acuity” exam that we cannot request separate payment for. Some of our providers forget this simple step, and that prevents us from getting payment for the service they have performed other than that step. If a patient wears glasses and goes regularly to ophthalmologist for their routine eye exams, can we use this to meet the requirement?
05/18/2020
The trends behind the initial preventive physical exam (IPPE), commonly referred to as the “Welcome to Medicare” visit, underscore a boon to medical practices in recent years, with more dollars pouring in and fewer denials striking down claims.

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