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National Government Services has made it a bit easier to report trigger points injections. A February update to its pain management LCD adds 17 codes to the list of diagnosis codes that support medical necessity.
Remember your ABKs (and Fs) when you submit electronic claims for services performed on or after Oct. 1.
What was speculation is now official: CMS will accept hardship exceptions for the meaningful use reporting program because of the delayed rulemaking that the federal agency issued for the program's modified stage 2 and stage 3.
Now that many practices use sensitive ICD-10-CM coding software that allows clinicians to use drop-down menus to assign specific diagnosis codes, some doctors are asking whether they still need to provide a descriptive diagnostic statement in the patient’s record in addition to the ICD-10 code.
 
 
You have an additional 15 days to let CMS know how you feel about the direction of Medicare-related quality-reporting programs, such as the physician quality reporting system (PQRS) and electronic health record (EHR) reporting.

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