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10/26/2026
As flu season ramps up and the holiday season approaches, make sure your group understands Medicare’s rules for bringing in a substitute physician or physical therapist. Whether an absence is planned or due to an emergency, the ability to report and bill for a substitute’s or locum tenens’ services can prevent interruptions in a patient’s care and the practice’s revenue.
10/26/2026
As physician sexual assault stories continue to pile up in the press, it may be a good idea to revisit your consent and medical chaperone protocols to make sure they’re as effective as possible.
10/26/2026
Grappling with HIPAA compliance is a time-consuming endeavor, and some priorities aren’t attaining the desired outcomes. Health care organizations are spending too much time proving they’re compliant and not enough time improving their security, according to James Winebrenner, CEO of Elisity.
10/26/2026
Get caught up on a series of remittance advice remark codes (RARC) that might suddenly be popping up in remittance advice fields or your patients’ explanation of benefits. More than 20 RARC codes have become official additions to the active RARC list in 2026.
10/26/2026
Providers doubled their use of virtual check-ins after CPT code 98016 (Established patient brief communication technology-based service with 5-10 minutes of medical discussion) replaced HCPCS code G2012 on Jan. 1, 2025.
10/19/2026
Reinforce your coding and billing efforts in 2027: Prepare to welcome nearly 300 new CPT codes across a wide range of services and body systems taking effect Jan. 1. The AMA’s CY 2027 CPT update also contains 74 revised codes and 80 deletions.
10/19/2026
The Secretary of HHS recently suggested that both health providers and their patients use artificial intelligence (AI) for diagnosis and treatment purposes. Some experts think that you should prepare for patients to challenge you to use AI technology — or accept the results from their own use of it — in medical encounters.
10/19/2026
A recent survey suggests that Gen Z health care providers — those 30 and under — are more than willing to jump ship from their present job, which is bad news for practices that want to keep them around. But experts suggest some understanding, and candor, might help keep them on board.
10/19/2026
A nonprofit organization dedicated to health care price transparency advocacy has sued the AMA for the right to publish its CPT code manual for free.
10/19/2026
Care management services under Medicare, including transitional care management (TCM) codes 99495-99496, chronic care management (CCM) codes 99437, 99439, 99487, 99489, 99490 and 99491, and principal care management (PCM) codes 99424-99427, bounced back in 2024 after a COVID-era malaise (PBN 10/27/25). New 2025 Medicare utilization numbers show that the trend is still up and that denials have stabilized.

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