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05/13/2024
Medicare’s rules for incident-to and split/shared services give your practice the opportunity to gain extra revenue for a non-physician practitioner’s (NPP) work. But the chance to receive 100% of the physician payment when an NPP does all or some of the work for an encounter comes with the risk of significant pain if members of your practice, including physicians and NPPs, don’t follow the rules.
05/13/2024
Lynn Anderanin, CPC, CPMA, CPPM, CPC-I, COSC, an independent medical coding education consultant, answers some of the many questions she receives pertaining to physician coding for CPT orthopedic services.
05/13/2024
In this issue, Part B News welcomes compliance expert Julia Huddleston, CIPP/US, CIPM, CCSFP, principal with Apgar & Associates, to answer a series of questions about HIPAA compliance areas, focusing on vendor risk management, reproductive rights and telehealth policies. The Q&A session is below.
05/13/2024
CMS published a summary of its first quarter 2024 HCPCS Level II code update application decisions. There were 48 additions, two code definition revisions and seven discontinuations. The additional codes mostly consist of injection and skin substitute products.
05/13/2024
A clarification to the rules for split or shared billing took effect Jan. 1, and a look back at the most-billed codes in claim year 2022 reveals the most frequent locations and types of encounters that groups should keep a close eye on.

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