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05/11/2026
Premiums for medical liability insurance have escalated “for the seventh consecutive year,” according to an AMA report, despite a decline in the number of claims. It may be time for you to reassess your coverage and consider ways to decrease your insurance expenses without losing protection.
05/11/2026
Practices should keep a careful eye on their virtual check-in claims — and heed the codes’ billing timelines — after an OIG audit found millions of dollars in improper payments for the technology-based services.
05/11/2026
Watch for tougher rules aimed at preventing improper coding for remote check-ins (G2010) and virtual check-ins (98016). The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) wants to see changes after an audit revealed millions of dollars in overpayments for these services and online E/M encounters, also known as e-visits (99421-99423). We provide a process chart to check on your claims for G2010 and 98016 services
05/11/2026
Federal regulators continue to signal that delayed patient access to medical records is one of the most visible and enforceable areas of HIPAA compliance.
05/11/2026
A recent AMA report shows that medical liability premiums, which have been rising in recent years, flattened in 2025. Despite that dip, however, physicians in some states still saw a jump in prices in 2025.
05/04/2026
Medical coding message forums can help coders find the answers to tough coding scenarios and keep claims moving. But remind everyone on your team to make sure their request for help doesn’t create compliance risks or endanger their employment.
05/04/2026
A new proposed rule covering interoperability and prior authorization for drugs would, essentially, impose prior authorization requirements on payers in major federally funded health care programs for outpatient drugs. These proposed requirements are similar to those imposed by the 2024 final rule for non-drug items and services — except this rule is a tad more friendly to providers.
05/04/2026
HHS recently released updated model notices of privacy practices (NPP), introducing changes that go well beyond revising standard privacy notice templates. The recent update includes revisions to the health care provider and health plan NPPs, as well as the Part 2 patient notice.
05/04/2026
Understand the ins and outs of coding procedures for the middle ear to ensure that you’re capturing the work taking place — and the CPT code associated with it. From tympanoplasties to tympanostomies, middle ear procedures can take multiple variations depending on scope of work, and code choice must follow suit.
05/04/2026
Watch the claims results associated with telemedicine modifier 95 and audio-only modifier 93: The denial rates for high-volume codes and places of service raise caution signs for each of them.

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