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07/09/2018
Question: How do I bill if a patient comes in and asks for help quitting e-cigarettes -- that is, vaping? The patient does not smoke regular cigarettes or any other traditional tobacco products; in fact, he says vaping helped him quit cigarettes.
07/09/2018

Family practice and internal medicine providers would be big winners under a revamped E/M payment scheme recommended by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC).

07/09/2018

Take note of the news that happens between Part B News issues by checking out the free Part B News blog at https://pbn.decisionhealth.com/Blogs/default.aspx. Here’s a sampling from this week.

07/02/2018
By nearly any metric, these appear to be boom times for nurse practitioners: Their ranks are growing, salaries are up and job searches are through the roof.
07/02/2018

Data from your 2017 performance in the merit-based incentive payment system (MIPS) is now available and more is on the way. Use the information to improve your performance and your score in 2018.

07/02/2018
A request for information (RFI) from CMS asks stakeholders about enforcement of the physician self-referral law in certain delivery models — and appears to be part of a trend toward Stark reform in the agency.
07/02/2018
Question: Modifier FY is now required per CMS for any X-ray taken using computed radiography technology/cassette based imaging. Does anyone have any information about whether the Medicare Advantage plans are following this guideline as well?
07/02/2018
The recent news reports that three men claiming to represent President Donald Trump, including an attorney from the Trump Organization, raided the medical offices of Trump’s long-time personal physician and took Trump’s records is a good reminder that third parties don’t have an automatic right to patient records even when they say they do.
07/02/2018
Non-physician practitioners (NPPs) have lower-than-average denial rates on E/Ms, but our analysis suggests they have trouble with other types of codes. 
06/26/2018

Despite an apparently simple process, provider exclusions get missed all the time, costing practices a fortune in claims takebacks and penalties. To avoid this, set up a process, check everybody and sweat the details.

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