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You’ll find new guidance that will help practices document services, code correctly and combat denials in your 2019 CPT manual. The electronic version of the 2019 CPT manual is available and DecisionHealth has reviewed the book to create this overview of some of the revisions and additions in next year's manual.
You could find a single payment amount for your level 2 to 5 office codes and significantly reduced documentation requirements as soon as Jan. 1 should changes put forth in the 2019 proposed Medicare physician fee schedule come to realization.
Providers will have a total of 473 code changes beginning Oct. 1, including  279 new codes, 143 revised codes and 51 deactivated codes, according to the final list of changes issued today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Providers could have 435 code changes to deal with starting Oct. 1 with 247 new codes, 139 revised codes and 49 codes rendered invalid, according to the hospital inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) proposed rule released April 24.
The 2018 DecisionHealth/HCPro medical coder salary survey launched on March 30 and will remain open for three weeks. One respondent will win a $25 Amazon gift card.

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