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03/09/2026
https://pbn.decisionhealth.com/Articles/Detail.aspx?id=550145A recent survey suggests that more physicians are using AI than previously thought, including for clinical decision support. It also suggests that physician management isn’t keeping pace — and that practices should be setting guardrails and policies if they aren’t already.
03/09/2026
Instruct your team to track the commercial plans that cover the new immunization counseling codes and share tips on how to credit the work of counseling Medicare patients when a patient opts not to receive a vaccine.
03/09/2026
Accurate provider documentation is the foundation of compliant coding, appropriate reimbursement and defensible claims. Yet, in a rapidly changing health care landscape, even highly skilled clinicians can find it difficult to stay current with evolving E/M criteria, CPT updates and ICD-10-CM coding specificity.
03/09/2026
Since CMS first authorized the advance care planning codes 99497 (first 30 minutes) and 99498 (each additional 30 minutes) in 2016, the services have accelerated in use and generally declined in denials. But they have yet to achieve the strong growth their first years promised.

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