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09/28/2026
Obstetric coders have likely started to report E/M visits for newly pregnant patients, but they still have a few months before they need to use the full set of new and revised codes and guidelines for maternity care services. Part B News recently received a set of questions whose answers reveal the amount of detail required to document and code these services.
09/28/2026
Just 10 months after the program was announced, and five months after its first participants were named, CMS is expanding the conditions covered by its Advancing Chronic Care with Effective, Scalable Solutions (ACCESS) Model.
09/28/2026
In a preview of the 2027 CPT code set, the AMA announced 453 total editorial changes, including 299 new codes across medical, surgical and diagnostic services that will be debuting Jan. 1, 2027.
09/28/2026
Practice coding under the current E/M office visit guidelines to sharpen your claims reporting. Determining a level of service comes down to one of two components: Medical decision-making (MDM) or time.
09/28/2026
The newly published Medicare utilization numbers reflecting CY 2025 show that the COVID slump appears to be in the distance, but the utilization of even some popular services has fluctuated wildly.
09/21/2026
Alert your team to the next and final batch of National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) edits for 2026. Even though CMS will close out the year without procedure-to-procedure (PTP) edits for many new CPT codes, practices will find changes that impact their coding, and in some cases eliminate contradictions between NCCI and CPT guidance.
09/21/2026
A recent survey suggests patients want to be told when their health care providers use artificial intelligence (AI). That may be easy when the AI does only administrative tasks. But when physicians employ those tools to help with diagnosis and treatment options, the situation can get thorny.
09/21/2026
Heads up: While currently only the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) can exclude Medicare providers for cause, it appears HHS is giving CMS the authority to do so as well.
09/21/2026
Question: What are common documentation gaps in behavioral health encounters?
09/21/2026
Eleven specialties reported the visit-complexity add-on code G2211 more than 1 million times apiece in 2025, with total claims topping 45 million and payments nearing $455 million, both figures up significantly from the previous year.

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