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10/02/2023
As COVID creeps back onto the scene, practices that relaxed their masking and social distancing requirements may want to bring them back. One expert suggests that you use caution lest you turn off patients who have been made skeptical by years of pandemic measures.
10/02/2023
Train coders and providers on Medicare’s rules for telehealth consults (G0406-G0408 and G0425-G0427) and keep a close eye on claims and documentation if your practice performs these services.
10/02/2023
Question: I recently read that practices can use CMS’ model for split/shared visits in the facility setting to report joint or collaborative visits in the office (99202-99215). Here’s a sample scenario. Can you shed some light on how we should bill these services?
10/02/2023
Question: Medicare’s National Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) includes a code pair listing CPT codes 29916 and 29915 as mutually exclusive procedures but allows you to unbundle the edit with a modifier. But the AMA says not to report the two codes together. Any explanation as to why CMS and the AMA conflict on these codes, other than that CMS is sometimes at odds with the AMA and private payers?
10/02/2023
Ignore the earlier version of CMS 100-04, Change Request 13314 and use new place of service (POS) code 27 (Outreach site/street) when appropriate.
10/02/2023
Medicare claims for telehealth consults fell somewhat in 2021 after a sharp rise in 2020, but the overall total exceeded claims submitted in 2019, according to Part B News analysis of the latest Part B claims data.
09/25/2023
Delve into the details for community health integration (CHI) services to see if it is a good fit for your practice. CMS’ proposal to cover a new service has garnered a great deal of interest, but your practice should be familiar with the fine print for this proposed care management service before it commits additional time and resources to it. 
09/25/2023
A second list of 34 Part B drugs that will have their co-insurance lowered under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has been announced by CMS.
09/25/2023
One of the most important, and sometimes one of the most challenging, initiatives for providers is the National Correct Coding Initiative’s (NCCI) procedure-to-procedure (PTP) edits. It isn’t a hard concept to understand, but it can be challenging to apply because of practitioner documentation and operational aspects of the day-to-day processes.
09/25/2023
Part B News welcomes compliance expert Rebecca Herold, CDPSE, FIP, CISSP, CIPM, CIPP/US, CIPT, CISM, CISA, FLMI, CEO of Privacy & Security Brainiacs SaaS services, to answer a series of questions pertaining to critical HIPAA compliance areas, such as telehealth compliance and risk assessment.

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