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06/28/2021
Remind practitioners to document and coders to count each medical decision-making (MDM) Category 1 item for data review with care. Recent guidance makes it clear that you have a number of ways meet the requirements for the “amount and/or complexity of data to be reviewed and analyzed” element for E/M office visits that are coded based on MDM.
06/28/2021
Covered entities (CE) that have flirted with the 30-day mark for response time with patient requests for access to or copies of their protected health information (PHI) should take notice: they may need to get better. Two times better, that is.
06/28/2021
One would think, after last week’s California v. Texas decision in the Supreme Court, that supporters of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) could breathe a little easier. But experts say while future legal attacks on the ACA may not be as sweeping as the one the Court just shut down, and there may be a period of quiet on that front, opponents will continue to come after the law by other means.
 
06/28/2021
Providers have made little use of two add-on codes that pay for extended preventive services since they debuted in 2018. Nonetheless, payments recently topped the $1 million mark.

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