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On March 13, CMS posted a fact sheet to the cms.gov website to aid Medicare providers, billers and coders with information relating to the pricing of both the CDC and non-CDC coronavirus (COVID-19) tests.  
It may sound counterintuitive, but two patients who are attributed the same diagnosis during a patient encounter can have wildly divergent risk-adjustment coding scores.
When coding under a risk-adjustment paradigm, capturing the full range of a patient’s chronic conditions takes on elevated importance. That’s because your payments, and ultimately your coding compliance, may be impacted.
Check your payer contracts and correspondence for signs that insurance companies are charging you to receive your medical reimbursement payments via electronic funds transfer (EFT).
Some practices that frequently report E/M services with modifer 25 (Significant, separately identifiable E/M service) are on track to face a dramatic pay reduction.

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