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02/12/2024
The most-used Medicare screening services took a tumble in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 public health emergency, and seemed to be staging a comeback in 2021. The most recent available figures, however, suggest any comeback is leveling off.
02/05/2024
Providers were less likely to report an E/M modifier with an office/other outpatient visit one year after the new rules for reporting the visits went into effect.
01/29/2024
After CMS finalized a regulatory path for easing the burden of prior authorizations, the agency offers some bullish projections on financial savings: Under the rule, individual and group physician practices would save $1.2 billion in the first year of implementation and more than $16 billion over 10 years.
01/22/2024
Regular comprehensive exams are among the few services for which all Medicare beneficiaries are eligible. While initial preventive physical examinations (IPPE) and initial annual wellness visits (AWV) remain mired in their pandemic-era utilization numbers, subsequent AWVs continue a strong recovery.
01/15/2024
The 2022 CPT Manual included 249 new codes across a range of services. However, analysis of the most recent Medicare Part B data reveals that the top 10 new procedure and service codes in 2022 were represented by additions to the manual’s E/M, anesthesia, eye and ocular adnexa, nervous system and medicine chapters.
01/08/2024
Physicians who routinely set up a cardiac rhythm monitoring system for remote evaluations will be pleased with a financial boon for their effort in 2024. The payments for two specific cardiac rhythm monitoring codes, 93297 and 93298, are on track to rise 130% and 283%, respectively.
01/01/2024
The new year is delivering a batch of fresh billing opportunities for medical groups, and many practices say they will take advantage of an E/M add-on code and an assessment service capturing patients’ social determinants of health.
12/18/2023
Most of the interprofessional consultation services that saw a spike in claims during the initial COVID wave returned to lower utilization, except for a glaring outlier: the most-reported interprofessional consult code 99451 continues its surging growth trajectory.
12/11/2023
With a 3.4% conversion factor (CF) cut looming in 2024 and Congress looking less likely by the day to deliver timely relief, providers who routinely bill services from CMS’ “selected codes” chart can at least take comfort that none of the 23 non-facility codes are taking too big a loss.
12/04/2023
Primary care management (PCM) services, the care management service for patients with one high-risk and complex, chronic illness, experienced a massive boost the year the codes migrated from the HCPCS to the CPT code set.

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