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If the news that Medicare will cover acupuncture for chronic low back pain piqued your interest, review the guidelines for dry needling and acupuncture codes.

 
What do modifiers 25, 57 and 59 have in common? Yes, they do all contain the number five. But they also could trigger a prepayment review by Anthem BlueCross BlueShield plans as early as Sept. 1.
 
Heads up if your practice reports consults to UnitedHealthcare’s commercial policy: the payer will start to phase out coverage of codes 99241-99255 on June 1.
The start date for Medicare administrative contractors (MACs) to expand coverage terms for patients in need of an implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD) has been delayed a month, CMS said in a Feb. 26 policy update.
Longtime watchers of Medicare’s Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) were shocked to see a note recently on the CMS website that Medicare’s long-time CCI contractor, Carmel, Ind.-based Correct Coding Solutions LLC, is taking itself out of the claims-processing software business after 23 years.

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