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As Thanksgiving approaches and you prepare to gather with family, eat platefuls of turkey and delectable sides and perhaps avoid a thorny conversation about politics or another blood-boiling topic du jour, don't forget to consider your most amicable diagnosis coding set.

You receive a new CPT manual from the American Medical Association every year, but remember to check the errata and technical corrections that AMA posts on its website: That information can make the difference between payment and denial.

Take note of additional guidance on a suite of new E/M codes making their debut in 2018 to describe cognitive assessment and behavioral health care, straight from this week’s AMA CPT Symposium in Chicago.
When CMS deputy director Marge Watchorn asked a roomful of coding veterans at this week’s AMA CPT Symposium in Chicago what they would change about the guidelines, she got an earful. Here's what they said.

A week after a Part B News story predicted it, President Donald Trump has nominated former pharma executive Alex Azar to be the next Secretary of Health and Human Services.

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